Developmental changes in using nominal number inflections in Kuwaiti Arabic

First Language

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 222-239

  Aljenaie, Khawla ^a   Abdalla, Fauzia ^a   Farghal, Mohammad ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Arabic child morphology; morphological processing; number marking; psycholinguistics; regular and irregular inflections

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958290459     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723710393101     Document Type: Article

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