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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)
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Segal, Osnat; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha; Kishon-Rabin, Liat; Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Child Language, 2009
The study examines prosodic characteristics of Hebrew speech directed to children between 0 ; 9-3 ; 0 years, based on longitudinal samples of 228,946 tokens (8,075 types). The distribution of prosodic patterns--the number of syllables and stress patterns--is analyzed across three lexical categories, distinguishing not only between open- and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Suprasegmentals, Nouns, Language Patterns