Baseline Data for Arabic Acquisition with Clinical Applications: Some Phonological Processes in Qatari Children’s Speech

Dr. Haifa Al-Buainain, Kimary Shain, Feda Al-Timimy and Ghada Khattab
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Dr. Haifa Al-Buainain: English Literature and linguistics,QATAR
Kimary Shain: Qatar University
Feda Al-Timimy: Qatar University
Ghada Khattab: University of Newcastle-upon Type, UK

International Journal of Business and Social Research, 2012, vol. 2, issue 6, 18-33

Abstract: This paper has two aims. The first is to inform our language acquisition colleagues about the “Baseline Data for Arabic Acquisition with Clinical Applications” project, which is a multi-institutional and international three-year interdisciplinary project in Linguistics and Children’s Health. It is a cross-sectional study of children’s speech that involves research on normal conversational interactions by native Arabic-speaking children between the ages of 1 year and 4 months and 3 years and 7 months. The goal is to collect extensive new material on four colloquial Arabic dialects: Qatari, Jordanian, Palestinian, and Lebanese.The second aim is the presentation of some results about phonological processes observed in the speech of young Qatari children, based on the databases. The paper gives a small taste of the kind of data the Qatar team is encountering including a discussion of practical difficulties in doing the work. We hope this will be helpful for fellow researchers who do child language research in the Arab Gulf region.

Keywords: First Language Acquisition; Phonological processes; Acquisition of Qatari Arabic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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