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Morpho-Syntactic Load in Judging Adjective Plural Agreement: Comparing Adults with and without ADHD
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Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit; Gur, Adi – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
The study examined the impact of two grammatical factors on marking Hebrew adjectives in agreement with plural nouns in adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared with peers without ADHD. Participants were 36 adult speakers of Hebrew, who were administered a judgment test of 144 sentences, each containing an adjective in…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Language Impairments
Acquiring Noun Plurals in Palestinian Arabic: Morphology, Familiarity, and Pattern Frequency
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Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Hadieh, Areen; Ravid, Dorit – Language Learning, 2012
The study examined the acquisition of two morphological procedures of noun pluralization in Palestinian Arabic: "Sound Feminine Plural" (SFP) and "Broken Plural" (BP). We tested if noun pluralization was affected by (1) the type of morphological procedure, (2) the degree of familiarity with the singular noun stem, and (3) the…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Morphemes, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language)
Morphological Processing in Hebrew-Speaking Students with Reading Disabilities
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Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
Marking number/gender agreement on Hebrew adjectives is a case in point: It is a challenging task requiring lexical and grammatical insight, a well-known source of processing errors in Hebrew usage. The current study examined impaired processing of noun and adjective inflection in adult speakers of Hebrew with dyslexia. Thirty normally reading…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Semitic Languages, Grade 6, College Students
Linguistic Processing in Hebrew-Speaking Children from Low and High SES Backgrounds
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Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Socio-Economic Status (SES) on Hebrew-speaking children's developing ability to pluralize nouns and mark adjectives in agreement with them. Participants were 180 gradeschool children from mid-high SES and 180 peers from low SES, in six consecutive grade levels. The task consisted of 32…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Socioeconomic Background, Nouns
Early Noun Plurals in German: Regularity, Productivity or Default?
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Laaha, Sabine; Ravid, Dorit; Korecky-Kroll, Katharina; Laaha, Gregor; Dressler, Wolfgang U. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
The acquisition of German plurals has been the focus of controversy in the last decade. In this paper we claim that degree of productivity (i.e. the capacity of nouns to form potential plurals) plays a key role in determining pace of acquisition. A plural elicitation task was administered to 84 Viennese German-speaking children aged 2;6 to 6;0.…
Descriptors: Nouns, German, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Acquisition of Derived Nominals in Hebrew: Developmental and Linguistic Principles.
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Ravid, Dorit; Avidor, Avraham – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Examined how Hebrew-speaking children acquired Hebrew-derived nominals (HDNs) of two types (action nominals and deverbal nouns). Child and adult native Hebrew speakers were tested on comprehension and production of HDNs. Acquisition of HDNs began at age 8 and was not complete by age 15. Task type, binyan patterns, and morphological regularity all…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Children, Foreign Countries