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Autor/inn/en | Albirini, Abdulkafi; Benmamoun, Elabbas; Chakrani, Brahim |
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Titel | Gender and Number Agreement in the Oral Production of Arabic Heritage Speakers |
Quelle | In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16 (2013) 1, S.1-18 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1366-7289 |
DOI | 10.1017/S1366728912000132 |
Schlagwörter | Semantics; Semitic Languages; Language Acquisition; Morphology (Languages); Nouns; Grammar; Verbs; Form Classes (Languages); Oral Language; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Syntax |
Abstract | Heritage language acquisition has been characterized by various asymmetries, including the differential acquisition rates of various linguistic areas and the unbalanced acquisition of different categories within a single area. This paper examines Arabic heritage speakers' knowledge of subject-verb agreement versus noun-adjective agreement with the aim of contrasting their distributions and exploring areas of resilience and vulnerability within Arabic heritage speech and their theoretical implications. Two oral-production experiments were carried out, one involving two picture-description tasks, and another requiring an elicited narrative. The results of the study show that subject-verb agreement morphology is more maintained than noun-adjective morphology. Moreover, the unmarked singular masculine default is more robust than the other categories in both domains and is often over-generalized to other marked categories. The results thus confirm the existence of these asymmetries. We propose that these asymmetries may not be explained by a single factor, but by a complex set of morphological, syntactic, semantic, and frequency-related factors. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |