Acquisition of broken plural patterns by Jordanian children
| Autor: | Yasir Al-Edwan, Bassil Mashaqba, Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh, Hussein AlGweirien |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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030507 speech-language pathology & audiology
03 medical and health sciences Linguistics and Language 05 social sciences Theoretical linguistics 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Broken plural 0305 other medical science Language acquisition 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics |
| Zdroj: | Linguistics. 58:1009-1022 |
| ISSN: | 1613-396X 0024-3949 |
| Popis: | This study examines the acquisition of broken plural (BP) patterns generated by child speakers of Jordanian Arabic (JA). Data were collected from 20 Jordanian children via an experimental production test. Children were given pictures of a set of singular entities depicting nouns and pictures containing their plural counterparts, and they were asked to say the names of the items in the pictures in an attempt to provide their corresponding plural forms. The results reveal that the acquisition of correct BP patterns appears critical for children. The feminine sound plural (FSP) was employed as the default pattern by children and thus is acquired before the BP, with the acquired patterns mainly shaped by productivity, predictability (but not familiarity) and overgeneralization (morphological, phonological, and semantic). Based on the oral speech corpus produced by adult JA speakers, published in Semarchive, a rough count of plural pattern frequencies was undertaken. The FSP proved to be less frequent than BPs in tokens and can thus be considered a minority default, a finding that calls into question the validity of Boudelaa and Gaskell’s corpus (2002. A re-examination of the default system for Arabic plurals. Language and Cognitive Processes 17(3). 321–343) on JA. Although 3- to 5-year-old children use the FSP as the most productive pattern, frequency does not significantly contribute to the predictability of the distribution in shaping the correct plural form at this stage of learning BPs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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