Linguistics and Literature Studies Vol. 5(5), pp. 354 - 364
DOI: 10.13189/lls.2017.050504
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Phonological Development of an Arabic-English Bilingual Child during the One-word Stage

Hana A. Daana ^*
Princess Alia University College, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this article is to provide a description of the phonological development in the speech of an Arabic-English bilingual child during the meaningful one-word production stage that is from 7 to 20 months of age. Data presented here are the result of recording sessions of spontaneous and non-spontaneous speech between the child and the author. The record, thus, is representative of the sounds which were produced in a meaningful verbal context. To the author’s best knowledge, data on the phonological development of an Arabic-English bilingual child has not been published before. Therefore, this report may be of interest and value to researchers in the field of child language acquisition in general and bilingual first language acquisition in particular.

KEYWORDS
Phonological Development, Bilingual, Arabic, English

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[1] Hana A. Daana , "Phonological Development of an Arabic-English Bilingual Child during the One-word Stage," Linguistics and Literature Studies, Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 354 - 364, 2017. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2017.050504.

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Hana A. Daana (2017). Phonological Development of an Arabic-English Bilingual Child during the One-word Stage. Linguistics and Literature Studies, 5(5), 354 - 364. DOI: 10.13189/lls.2017.050504.