Arabic-L:LING:Needs ideas on eliciting verb forms

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Date: 21 Nov 2006
From:Fatima Basaffar <basafarf at hotmail.com>
Subject:Needs ideas on eliciting verb forms

Hi,
It seems to me that you’re interested in Arabic. If you can help me  
or direct me to any experts in the field, I’ll be very grateful. Here  
is what I’m looking for:
I’m working on the acquisition of verb inflections in Arabic by 2-4  
years old children. I’m at the data collection stage.
Since Arabic is a highly inflected language, it didn't prove to be an  
easy task to elicit all verb inflections required. I’m using both  
naturalistic and experimental methods in which I have  pair of  
pictures, a picture story and a 3 minutes vido-clip presenting  
cartoon figures performing actions. The problem I’m facing  is in  
eliciting the 1st and 2nd person. How can I get the child to produce  
the 1st person inflections in the past, present and future  (singular  
and plural) and 2nd person inflection in the past, present and future  
(male, female and plural).
Does anyone know of a method that can help me in eliciting these  
inflections?
Thanks,
Fatima

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