Three longitudinal case studies were conducted to investigate developmental language impairment (1)1.1) in Egyptian Arabic (EA). While there have been descriptions of adult acquired aphasic deficits in Arabic, this study details the linguistic characteristics of children with im…
A review of the literature indicates a facilitative effect of emotional content on communicative abilities in aphasia, including discourse production (e.g., Bloom, Borod, Obler, & Gerstman, 1992; Bloom, Borod, Santschi-Haywood, Pick, & Obler, 1996; Landis, Graves, & Goodglass, 1…
Numerous studies of the acquisition of English phonology have been undertaken over the last century. However, studies of the acquisition of other languages also are needed to add to our knowledge about the order and ages at which phonemes are acquired and whether or not they are…
The purpose of this study was to investigate and to gain a better understanding of the acoustic characteristics of the Arabic voiceless fricative consonants of the Al-Khat spoken dialect of Gulf Arabic. The FFT of each of the 8 Arabic voiceless fricatives followed by one of the …
Four areas of morphosyntax in Arabic-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) were investigated: tense, subject-verb agreement, determiners, and prepositions. Spontaneous production data were analyzed for accuracy and error types in using these morphemes. Two gr…