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.
Highlights
A number of studies in child language acquisition have focused on the acquisition of phonology (Leopold [1] 1947; Jakobson [2] 1941/1968; Templin [3] 1957; Menn [4] 1971; Smith [5] 1973; Ingram [6,7] 1974/1979; Carter [8] 1975; Ferguson and Farwell [9] 1975; Kiparsky and Menn [10] 1977; Gusmann [11] 1980; Macken and Barton [12] 1980; Menn [13,14] 1980/1983; Schwartz and Leonard [15] 1982; MacKain [16] 1982; Atlinson [17] 1982; Ingram [18,19,20] 1985/ 1988/ 1990; Pye, Ingram and List [21] 1987; Ratner [22] 1994; Lleo and Prinz [23] 1996; Levelt, Schiller and Levelt [24] 2000; Keshavarz and Ingram [25] 2002; Stites, Demuth and Kirk [26] 2003; Pater and Barlow [27] 2003; Kirk and Demuth [28] 2005)
This is because one of the most observable characteristics of child language acquisition is phonological development which is an obvious aspect of speech
Since the author’s child had the chance of being a simultaneous bilingual by virtue of the fact that he was exposed to two languages for the first five years of his life, the author made sure that the child was exposed to the form of Arabic spoken in the capital city of Jordan (Ammani Arabic) and the form of English used at that geographical place in England
Summary
A number of studies in child language acquisition have focused on the acquisition of phonology (Leopold [1] 1947; Jakobson [2] 1941/1968; Templin [3] 1957; Menn [4] 1971; Smith [5] 1973; Ingram [6,7] 1974/1979; Carter [8] 1975; Ferguson and Farwell [9] 1975; Kiparsky and Menn [10] 1977; Gusmann [11] 1980; Macken and Barton [12] 1980; Menn [13,14] 1980/1983; Schwartz and Leonard [15] 1982; MacKain [16] 1982; Atlinson [17] 1982; Ingram [18,19,20] 1985/ 1988/ 1990; Pye, Ingram and List [21] 1987; Ratner [22] 1994; Lleo and Prinz [23] 1996; Levelt, Schiller and Levelt [24] 2000; Keshavarz and Ingram [25] 2002; Stites, Demuth and Kirk [26] 2003; Pater and Barlow [27] 2003; Kirk and Demuth [28] 2005) This is because one of the most observable characteristics of child language acquisition is phonological development which is an obvious aspect of speech. None of them have traced the development of English and Arabic sounds in the speech of a bilingual child
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