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1) Subject::'eet' conjugations for Measure 1 hollow
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Date: 05 Aug 2009
From:Samira Farwaneh <<a href="mailto:farwaneh@email.arizona.edu">farwaneh@email.arizona.edu</a>>
Subject::'eet' conjugations for Measure 1 hollow
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "> Hello<br><br>I was following a while back a Kuwaiti serial starring the well-known<br>actress Suad Abdallah who played the role of a cognitively underdeveloped<br>woman....can't remember the title of the series. What intrigued me is the<br>language she used, all her Measure 1 hollow verbs were conjugated on par<br>with weak and geminate verbs. So you would hear gaaleet instead of gilt and<br>naameet instead of nimt. Since the character is a 50 year old woman with an<br>IQ of a five year old, the writer is making the assumption that this type of<br>inflection constitutes a stage in the acquisition of hollow verbs. My<br>question is: can this be verified? Are there systematic studies on the<br>acquisition of verbs by children that corroborate this assumption?<br><br>A related observation: We used to have an Iraqi student who uses the<br>augmented /eet/ in derived measures, he often says ixtaareet and istafaadeet<br>instead of ixtart and istafadt but not in the nonderived measure 1.<br><br>If you have any observations or know of references on the inflection of<br>hollow verbs in child language and various dialects I would appreciate<br>receiving the information and with many thanks.<br>Ramadan Mubarak in advance to everyone<br><br>Samira Farwaneh <br></span>
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