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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...

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Published in:Language Acquisition Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 130 - 145
Main Authors: Tallas-Mahajna, Naila, Dromi, Esther
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr-Jun2024
Subjects:
Preschool children
Child development
Oral communication
Mean length of utterance
Language ability testing
Morphemics
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