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This study investigated the claims which Pienemann's (1998) Processability Theory makes about developmental stages as constrained by a proposed speech processing hierarchy. Specifically the study aimed at testing two main claims: (1) that stages cannot be skipped through formal …

This study investigated the development of the interlanguage of learners of Arabic as a foreign language from a processability perspective as presented in Pienemann (1998). Pienemann's Processability Theory (PT) procedures were applied to seven syntactic structures of Arabic and…