LINGUIST List 26.155
Tue Jan 13 2015
Qs: Acquisition of Arabic as L1; Intelligibility test
Editor for this issue: Damir Cavar <damirlinguistlist.org>
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1. Jihad Hamdan , Acquisition of Arabic as a first language 2. Patchanok Kitikanan , Intelligibility test
Message 1: Acquisition of Arabic as a first language Date: 08-Jan-2015
From: Jihad Hamdan <jihaddanyahoo.com>
Subject: Acquisition of Arabic as a first language
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I am a professor of linguistics at the University of Jordan with a research interest in the acquisition of Arabic, particularly Jordanian spoken Arabic. I have published a co-authored article on the acquisition of consonants by Arabic-speaking school age children in Jordan (Folia Phoniatrica etLogopaedica, 2007;59,55-64). I am currently conducting a longitudinal study on the acquisition of wh-questions by two Jordanian Arabic-speaking children. In 2000, Professor Amer Helmy Ibrahim posted a more general query on the acquisition of Arabic as a mother tongue in LINGUIST List: Vol-11-2392. I would be grateful to colleagues working in this field if they could brief me on their own research or on serious literature about the acquisition of Arabic, particularly wh-questions.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)
Message 2: Intelligibility test |
Date: 05-Jan-2015
From: Patchanok Kitikanan <nicenaninagmail.com>
Subject: Intelligibility test
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I am conducting two experiments and I am not sure if both of them are counted as intelligibility test as they are many methods to investigate degree of intelligibility in L2 speech production.
For my first experiment, I asked my L2 subjects to read a word list and transcribe the realisations. This means that I know what the target word is when transcribing. I use IPA symbols for transcriptions. The intelligibility is judged when the realisations are target-like.
In the second experiment, I use the stimuli that my L2 subjects read from the first experiment, and I cut the stimuli into only initial consonant and some part of a following vowels. Then I asked English listeners to listen and identify words they think the stimuli are. The intelligibility is judged when English listeners accurately identify the words.
Can I ask if these two experiments are counted as intelligibility test?
Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
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