THE EFFECT OF EARLY AND HEAVY EXPOSURE TO A SECOND LANGUAGE ON THE RECOGNITION OF CERTAIN ARABIC PHONEMES: A CASE STUDY.
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| Title: | THE EFFECT OF EARLY AND HEAVY EXPOSURE TO A SECOND LANGUAGE ON THE RECOGNITION OF CERTAIN ARABIC PHONEMES: A CASE STUDY. |
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| Authors: | DAMANHOURI, MIRAMAR |
| Source: | Annual Review of Education, Communication & Language Sciences. 2015, Vol. 12, p138-157. 20p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Second language acquisition, Arabic language, Phonemics |
| Abstract: | The main concern of this study is to examine the influence of early and heavy exposure to a second language (English) on the recognition of Arabic emphatic phonemes mes /sʕ /, /dʕ /, /tʕ /, /ð /. Data for this study were collected from 59 participants, whose ages ranged from eight to 10. They were distributed into two groups: monolinguals and bilinguals. They were asked to spell a passage in Arabic that included words with emphatic phonemes, in order to see if the lack of the emphatic phonemes /sʕ /, /dʕ /, /tʕ /, /ð / in English, but the presence of their soft pairs /sʕ/, /dʕ/, /tʕ/, /ð/, affected the Arabic spelling accuracy of the participants in the study who are heavily exposed to English. The results of this research suggest that most of these children tended to replace the emphatic phonemes with their non-emphatic counterparts as a result of their heavy and early exposure to English, compared to their exposure to their mother tongue language (Arabic). In addition, the diglossic nature of Arabic also influenced the accuracy of their spelling of the emphatic phonemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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