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Acquiring Diglossia: Mutual Influences of Formal and Colloquial Arabic on Children's Grammaticality Judgments
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Khamis-Dakwar, Reem; Froud, Karen; Gordon, Peter – Journal of Child Language, 2012
There are differences and similarities between Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and spoken varieties of Arabic, in all language domains. To obtain preliminary insights into interactions between the acquisition of spoken and standard varieties of a language in a diglossic situation, we employed forced-choice grammaticality judgments to investigate…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Interference (Language), Bilingualism