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Nailah Al-Sulaihim; Fauzia Abdalla; Abdessattar Mahfoudhi; Saleh Shaalan – First Language, 2024
The objective of this study was to examine the development of derivational morphological structures in the productive language of Kuwaiti Arabic (KA)-speaking children. Participants were 512 typically developing Kuwaiti children aged 3;0 years to 7;11 years (243 boys and 269 girls). Five age groups at 1-year intervals were tested; each group was…
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Acquisition, Mastery Learning, Preschool Children
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Listanti, Andrea; Torregrossa, Jacopo – First Language, 2023
Heritage language (HL) speakers seem to diverge from monolingual speakers in the acquisition of syntax-discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the studies reporting this finding do not make any distinction between different types of syntax-discourse interface structures. Therefore, it is an open question whether these structures are…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Narration