Acquiring Noun Plurals in Palestinian Arabic: Morphology, Familiarity, and Pattern Frequency

Language Learning

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1079-1109

  Saiegh Haddad, Elinor ^a   Hadieh, Areen ^b   Ravid, Dorit ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Acquisition of inflection; Arabic, broken plural; Morphology; Nouns; Single route model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869861340     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00727.x     Document Type: Article

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