26.155, Qs: Acquisition of Arabic as L1; Intelligibility test

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Subject: 26.155, Qs: Acquisition of Arabic as L1; Intelligibility test

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1)
Date: 08-Jan-2015
From: Jihad Hamdan [jihaddan at yahoo.com]
Subject: Acquisition of Arabic as a first language
2)
Date: 05-Jan-2015
From: Patchanok Kitikanan [nicenanina at gmail.com]
Subject: Intelligibility test

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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:50:20
From: Jihad Hamdan [jihaddan at yahoo.com]
Subject: Acquisition of Arabic as a first language

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I am a professor of linguistics at the University of Jordan with a research
interest in the acquisition of Arabic, particularly Jordanian spoken Arabic. I
have published a co-authored article on the acquisition of consonants by
Arabic-speaking school age children in Jordan (Folia Phoniatrica
etLogopaedica, 2007;59,55-64). I am currently conducting a longitudinal study
on the acquisition of wh-questions by two Jordanian Arabic-speaking children.
In 2000, Professor Amer Helmy Ibrahim posted a more general query on the
acquisition of Arabic as a mother tongue in LINGUIST List: Vol-11-2392. I
would be grateful to colleagues working in this field if they could brief me
on their own research or on serious literature about the acquisition of
Arabic, particularly wh-questions.

 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)





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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:50:20
From: Patchanok Kitikanan [nicenanina at gmail.com]
Subject: Intelligibility test

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I am conducting two experiments and I am not sure if both of them are counted
as intelligibility test as they are many methods to investigate degree of
intelligibility in L2 speech production.

For my first experiment, I asked my L2 subjects to read a word list and
transcribe the realisations. This means that I know what the target word is
when transcribing. I use IPA symbols for transcriptions. The intelligibility
is judged when the realisations are target-like.

In the second experiment, I use the stimuli that my L2 subjects read from the
first experiment, and I cut the stimuli into only initial consonant and some
part of a following vowels. Then I asked English listeners to listen and
identify words they think the stimuli are. The intelligibility is judged when
English listeners accurately identify the words.

Can I ask if these two experiments are counted as intelligibility test?

 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English (eng)






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