The Role of Emergent Bilingualism in the Development of Morphological Awareness in Arabic and Hebrew

Conclusions We conclude that children with even an initial exposure to L2 reveal acceleration of sensitivity to word structure in both of their languages. We suggest that this is due to the fact that two Semitic languages, Arabic and Hebrew, share a common core of linguistic features, together with favorable contextual factors and instructional factors.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech Therapy Source Type: research