Typological universals of agreements in Arabic second language acquisition
Other Title(s)
اللغة الكلية التصنيفية و اكتساب اللغة الثانية
Joint Authors
al-Shawashrah, Iqab Yusuf
al-Umari, Muhammad Ahmad
al-Shudayfat, Abd Allah T.
al-Hunayti, Anas Ibrahim
al-Mashaqibah, Basil Muhammad
Source
Dirasat : Human and Social Sciences
Issue
Vol. 47, Issue 1 (31 May. 2020), pp.314-327, 14 p.
Publisher
University of Jordan Deanship of Academic Research (DAR)
Publication Date
2020-05-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Arabic language and Literature
Abstract EN
This study investigated the cognitive relevance of typological universal grammar in second language acquisition.
It addressed whether constraints that hold for primary languages hold also for interlanguages.
To answer this question, two Greenbergian implicational universals were tested on the mental grammar of nine Javanese-Indonesian learners of Jordanian Arabic.
Results revealed that none of the participants acquired gender agreements in Arabic verb phrases (i.e.
the marked pattern) without acquiring number agreements (the unmarked pattern).
Similarly, participants’ level of accuracy for subject-verb (SV) number agreements (i.e.
the unmarked pattern) was similar to or higher than their level of accuracy for verb-subject (VS) number agreements (i.e.
the marked pattern).
The research findings were discussed in view of Eckman’s Structure Conformity Hypothesis (1991).
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Umari, Muhammad Ahmad& al-Shawashrah, Iqab Yusuf& al-Shudayfat, Abd Allah T.& al-Hunayti, Anas Ibrahim& al-Mashaqibah, Basil Muhammad. 2020. Typological universals of agreements in Arabic second language acquisition. Dirasat : Human and Social Sciences،Vol. 47, no. 1, pp.314-327.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1300053
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Umari, Muhammad Ahmad…[et al.]. Typological universals of agreements in Arabic second language acquisition. Dirasat : Human and Social Sciences Vol. 47, no. 1 (May. 2020), pp.314-327.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1300053
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Umari, Muhammad Ahmad& al-Shawashrah, Iqab Yusuf& al-Shudayfat, Abd Allah T.& al-Hunayti, Anas Ibrahim& al-Mashaqibah, Basil Muhammad. Typological universals of agreements in Arabic second language acquisition. Dirasat : Human and Social Sciences. 2020. Vol. 47, no. 1, pp.314-327.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1300053
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
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Record ID
BIM-1300053