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Non-Verbal Predicate Negation in Child Emirati Arabic

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Title: Non-Verbal Predicate Negation in Child Emirati Arabic
Language: English
Authors: Dimitrios Ntelitheos (ORCID 0000-0001-6823-9796), Marta Szreder (ORCID 0000-0001-6182-9523)
Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics. 2024 31(1):37-56.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 20
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Information Analyses
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistic Input, Word Frequency, Preschool Children, Computational Linguistics, Longitudinal Studies
Geographic Terms: United Arab Emirates
DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2023.2169830
ISSN: 1048-9223
1532-7817
Abstract: We provide an account of the developmental trajectory of Emirati Arabic negation particles. We treat the non-verbal predicate negator (NVPN) "mub" as a negative copula, in contrast to the verbal predicate negator (VPN) "maa," which encodes sentential negation in verbal and existential contexts. The analysis is supported by evidence from a longitudinal corpus of six Emirati children. Given the high frequency of occurrence of "maa" in the ambient language, we show that an input-frequency account predicts "maa-mub" substitutions in early stages of acquisition. However, confirming previous findings by Becker we show that when "mub" emerges in later stages, its distribution exhibits an asymmetry: "mub" is used frequently with individual-level nominal/adjectival predicates but it almost never appears with stage level adjectival/prepositional/ adverbial predicates, mirroring the distribution of copular elements in child English (and other languages).
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