Book Announcement - Acquiring The Arabic Lexicon

[Kelley Sacco]

Title: Acquiring The Arabic Lexicon

Subtitle: Evidence of Productive Strategies and Pedagogical Implications



Publication Year: 2004

Publisher:      Academica Press

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Author: Fatima Badry

Hardback: ISBN: 1-930901-38-0  Pages: 228, Price: U.S. $: 54.95





Abstract:

The nature of the Arabic lexicon with its system of roots and derivational
patterns to form a large number of its words has the potential of shedding
light on the relation between semantic and formal properties in word
formation. Its acquisition offers a distinct opportunity to investigate the
productivity of derivational processes as children build their lexicons and
promises to enrich the debate about directionality of derivation and the
psychological reality of the root in Semitic lexicons.  This book examines
the acquisition of the Arabic lexicon by Moroccan Arabic speaking children
between the ages of three and nine years. The author analyzes the strategies
used by children in acquiring productive use of verbal and nominal patterns
at various stages of development and proposes using the insights gained from
acquisition of the dialect as a first language in improving the teaching of
Modern Standard Arabic.





Lingfield(s):  Psycholinguistics, Arabic Language Acquisition.



Written In: English (Language Code: English)