Lexical Growth in Egyptian Arabic Speaking Children: A corpus Based Study | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Language Engineering | ||
| Article 4, Volume 4, Issue 1, April 2017, Pages 29-34 PDF (642.92 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejle.2017.59408 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Heba Salama* 1; Sameh Alansary2 | ||
| 1Phonetics and Linguistics Department, Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University | ||
| 2Faculy of Literature, Alexandria University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper calculates developmental index of language growth in Egyptian Arabic based on a corpus consists of spontaneous speech samples from10 children 5 boys and 5 girls from 1.7 to 4 years. Depending on 30 minutes transcripts of spontaneous speech production the following properties of collected data were analysed: size of vocabulary and frequency of word use in relation to age (development of types and tokens) and individual differences in vocabulary size. The contribution of the current study lies in the use of vocabulary profile results as a measure of potential indicators of developmental language delay. The results provide a new measurement tool for lexical growth at different developmental stages. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Lexical growth; developmental delay; vocabulary profile | ||
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