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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777301703321

Autore

Ravid Dorit Diskin

Titolo

Language change in child and adult Hebrew : a psycholinguistic perspective / / Dorit Diskin Ravid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995

ISBN

0-19-772187-7

0-19-535813-9

1-280-52750-1

1-4294-0656-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

492.4

492.4019

Soggetti

Hebrew language - Acquisition

Hebrew language - Variation

Hebrew language - Inflection

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-203) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Technical Notes; 1. Background; 2. The Study; 3. Analysis of Results: The Effects of Literacy and Maturation; 4. Structural Opacity; 5. Principles and Strategies in Language Acquisition and in Language Processing; 6. Linguistic Variation and Cost; 7. Language Variation and Language Change: Some More Answers; Notes; References; Appendices; Subject Index; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

Tracing the language development in Hebrew-speakers from childhood to adulthood, this study focuses on inflectional morphology (the grammatical form of words). It explores strategies of language acquisition in speakers of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds.