Arabic-L:LING:NEW BOOK: Acquiring the Arabic Lexicon

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Date: 22 Apr  2004
From:Fatima Badry <badry at ausharjah.edu>
Subject:NEW BOOK: Acquiring the Arabic Lexicon

Title: Acquiring The Arabic Lexicon
Subtitle: Evidence of Productive Strategies and Pedagogical Implications


Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:      Academica Press
www.academicapress.com

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


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.

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