The emergence of subjects in Lebanese two-year-olds

In Lebanese Arabic, lexical subjects may occur before or after verbs, but only before non-verbal predicates. Analysis of spontaneous language samples from 19 two-year-old children shows that postverbal (VS) and preverbal (SV) subjects emerge simultaneously. The youngest children displayed no VS-SV d...

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Published in:	Journal of child language Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 234 - 247
Main Authors:	ABBOUD, Layal, CHOUEIRI, Lina, SEIFEDDINE, Nour, TULLER, Laurice
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Cambridge University Press 01.01.2024
Subjects:	Adolescent Adolescent mothers Arabic language Child Child Development Child Language Children Children & youth Female Grammatical subject Humans Hypotheses Language Language Development Language disorders Language Impairments Mothers Native language acquisition Older children Predicate Preferences Semitic Languages Sentences Speech Syntactic movement Syntax Verbs Word Order Young Children Lebanon language acquisition Lebanese Arabic subjects with verbal/non-verbal predicates
ISSN:	0305-0009, 1469-7602, 1469-7602
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