A sociolinguistic study of the 'Broken Plural' in the speech of Iraqi Arabic-English bilingual children

This study investigates the acquisition of a most intriguing system of nominal plurality in Arabic, the Broken Plural (BP), in the speech of bilingual Iraqi-English children. BP is an irregular plural form, there is no fixed suffix to be added and it is derived by altering the consonant and vowel pa...

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Main Author: Al-Timimi, Alyaa
Published: University of Essex 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739129