Arabic morpheme per utterance: a morphological measure of child language development in spoken Arabic.
Given the rich bound morphology of Spoken Arabic, an attempt was made here to construct a developmental measure corresponding to the mean length utterance (MLU) in English and to morpheme-per-utterance (MPU) in Hebrew. The adaptation to Arabic resulted in a new measurement termed Arabic-MPU, that wa...
| Publicado en: | Language Acquisition Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 130 - 145 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr-Jun2024
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