Abstract
We present a new corpus of child and child-directed speech (CDS) in Palestinian Arabic. It includes transcriptions following the CHILDES guidelines and features recordings of 16 monolingual Palestinian Arabic-speaking children with an age range of 19-58 months and their adult interlocutors. We analyse the children's morphosyntactic development and identify a variety of target word orders (45 in child speech, 50 in CDS), with prevalent SV(O) structures; we also found high rates of null subjects in both populations, marginal errors in children's verbal agreement morphology, and early emergence of serial verb constructions, observed from 23 months of age.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Child Language |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 16 Jun 2025 |
Keywords
- child spontaneous production
- corpus
- early acquisition
- null subjects
- Palestinian Arabic
- serial verb construction
- verbal morphology
- word order
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DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION OF PREVERBAL SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
Gavarró Algueró, A. (Principal Investigator), Pagliarini, E. (Co-Investigador/a Principal), Feiman, R. (Collaborator), Franck, J. (Collaborator), Guasti, M. T. (Collaborator), Hochmann, J.-R. (Collaborator), Keidel Fernandez, A. (Collaborator), Nazzal, T. (Collaborator), Salmons Llussà, I. (Collaborator), Segovia-Martín, J. (Collaborator), Shenai , H. (Collaborator), Yan, J. (Collaborator), Zhu , J. (Collaborator), El Hadef Hammad, I. (Collaborator), Balari Ravera, S. (Investigator) & Irhaymi, W. (Collaborator)
1/09/23 → 31/08/27
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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