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• accusative clitic pronouns 157, 165–169

• acoustic2

• AEVTSee Arabic expressive vocabulary test

• affrication 10, 57–61, 64–72, 76–81

• ALI children 12, 144, 146–148, 152, 155–156, 163, 166–171

• ALN children 12, 144, 147, 150, 155–156, 161–163, 166–171

• alphabet 11, 94, 105, 133, 137–138, 140

• APVTSee Arabic Picture Vocabulary Test

• Arabic
  • Cairene 10, 23–24, 30–34, 52, 55
  • Egyptian 8, 9, 14, 16, 51, 53, 55, 151, 154, 174
  • Emirati 4, 10, 11, 17, 57, 62, 64, 77, 80–81, 109–114, 118, 121, 125, 128, 141–142, 209, 212–213, 216
  • Gulf 12, 57, 58, 81, 121, 177–178, 186–188, 190, 201–204, 208, 212, 215–217, 232–233, 235
  • Maltese4
  • Modern Standard 1, 80, 102, 110, 186, 217, 232
  • Moroccan 4, 13, 16–19, 29, 55
  • Saudi 12, 144, 151, 155–156, 159, 161, 168
  • Standard 28, 30
  • Urban Hijazi153

• Arabic expressive vocabulary test 188, 214, 218, 226, 240, 243–245

• Arabic Picture Vocabulary test 188, 196

• Arabic word and nonword repetition186

• articulatory complexity186

• ASDSee autism spectrum disorders

• assessment tool 121, 125, 126, 140, 201, 203

• autism 144, 156, 172–176, 210–211, 234–236
  • high functioning children with148
  • low functioning children with149

• autism spectrum disorders 12, 173–175, 209, 233–236

• baseline tasks 156–157, 161

• bilingualSee bilingualism

• bilingualism 17, 209, 211–212, 216, 226, 230, 232, 234–235

• CASee chronological age

• chronological age 144, 180

• cognitive processing 111, 145, 234

• consonant 5, 6, 10, 16, 24–25, 30, 35, 38, 43–45, 47–48, 50, 52, 81, 94, 109–110, 113–114, 117–118, 132, 137, 139, 179, 204
  • coronals 15, 36, 53–54, 61, 65, 67, 71, 79

• consonantal root 4, 5, 7

• contextual predictability 89, 97–98, 100

• CPMSee Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices

• Danish 151–152

• DDSee developmental delay

• descriptive statistics161

• developmental delay 144, 148

• diacritics 5, 95, 98, 100, 139

• dictation 11, 133–134, 137–138

• diglossic110

• Down Syndrome 144, 211

• DSSee Down Syndrome

• electromagnetic articulography2

• electropalatography2

• EMALACSee Emirati Arabic Language Acquisition Corpus

• Emirati Arabic Language Acquisition Corpus 64, 114, 128–131, 134

• English 6–7, 11–12, 14, 17, 19, 29–30, 57, 61–63, 79, 85, 87–92, 95–97, 99–100, 104–105, 122, 141–145, 148, 150–152, 154, 156, 161, 170, 184–185, 188, 200, 209–210, 212–224, 226–238, 241–245

• experimental task157

• exposure 183, 211–212, 214, 231–235

• expressive vocabulary 12, 149, 177–179, 186, 188–189, 194–199, 202–204, 209, 212–214, 216, 218–219, 221–224, 226–227, 231, 235, 238, 240, 243–245

• eye movements 13–16, 85–89, 94, 96–97, 102–111, 113, 116, 119–122

• eye-tracking 5–6, 109–110, 113, 118–120

• E-Z Reader model 11, 92–94, 106

• feedback 11, 109, 113–118

• fixation 6, 11, 16, 87–88, 90, 93, 96, 99–100, 102–107, 111–113, 116–120
  • count116
  • duration116
  • patterns 11, 111

• French 5, 11, 16, 18, 53, 60, 80, 103, 107, 122, 127, 129, 130–131, 142–143, 151–152, 170, 174–175

• gaze-contingent boundary paradigms91

• gaze-contingent moving window paradigms87

• GISee Grammatical Impairment

• Grammatical Impairment150

• Greek 60, 151, 170

• Hebrew 54, 88, 91–92, 96, 102, 151–153

• high functioning children with autism153

• kashkasha59

• landing positions 96–97

• language acquisition 11, 13, 112, 114, 125–128, 172–175

• Test for Arabic 11, 112, 125–126, 128

• language impairment 12–18, 141, 144, 147–148, 152, 161, 170, 172–178, 180, 183–186, 189, 198–208, 211, 234, 236

• language-independent structures157

• language-specific structures157

• laryngoscopy2

• LATFASee Language acquisition Test for Arabic

• launch distance99

• lexical frequency 89, 96–97, 99

• LFASee autism: low functioning children with

• literacy 11–12, 18, 101–112, 119, 122, 125–127, 133, 137–143, 205, 211, 234

• LITMUS SRep guidelines157

• MASee nonverbal mental age

• Mandarin 151–152

• mean length of utterance207

• Minimally speaking children226

• MLUSee Mean Length of Utterance

• models of eye movement control 85, 89, 92, 96

• monolingual 144, 153–154, 174, 211–212, 217, 230–231, 235–236

• morphological awareness 5, 11, 125–126, 128, 136, 138, 140, 142–143

• morphosyntax 144–145, 151, 155, 167, 169, 171, 174

• MRI15

• nasoendoscopy2

• nonverbal abilities144

• nonverbal IQ144

• nonverbal mental age 144, 152

• nonword
  • length 183, 193, 201
  • repetition 12, 177–186, 191–193, 195–197, 198–204, 206–208

• NVIQSee nonverbal IQ

• OB1 model93

• one-way ANOVA 156, 161–162

• onset consonant matching 109, 113–114

• optimal viewing position 90, 104–105, 107

• Optional Infinitive149

• OVPSee optimal viewing position

• parafoveal processing 91, 103–104, 107

• past tense 147–148, 157–158, 160, 165–171

• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test146

• perceptual span 6, 17, 88–89, 93, 96, 104–106

• pharyngealization 10, 23–34, 40, 44–45, 47, 49–53, 55
  • pharyngealized consonants 10, 24–25, 27–30, 45, 49–52
  • spread 10, 23–24, 27, 30–31, 34, 44–45, 47, 50–52

• phonetics 1–3, 14–17, 19, 21, 53–55
  • acoustic2
  • articulatory 3, 10, 16, 23–24, 27–29, 31–35, 43–45, 49–52, 66, 181, 184, 186

• phonological
  • awareness 9–11, 109–115, 118–119, 122, 125, 128, 138–140, 142–143, 182, 208
  • production 11, 125, 128, 131, 136, 138, 140
  • Short Term Memory 177, 179, 180, 182, 200
  • skills 110, 122, 177, 186, 198, 203, 235

• plurals 17–18, 133–134, 138, 140–141, 148

• PPVTSee Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test

• preferred viewing location90

• preview benefit 92, 102–103

• priming4
  • auditory 4, 17, 24–26, 35, 54, 114, 143
  • cross-modal4
  • masked4

• PSTMSee Phonological Short Term Memory

• psycholinguistics4

• PVLSee preferred viewing location

• Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices146

• receptive vocabulary 144, 149, 152, 157, 161–162, 178–179, 183, 189, 194–195, 198, 203, 205, 214, 216, 218–219, 224, 226, 230, 238–239, 243–245

• relative clauses
  • object 157, 159, 165–169, 171
  • subject 157, 159, 165–169

• rhyme 11, 109, 112–114, 118–120

• matching113

• root 4–7, 13–14, 34, 36, 95, 97, 101, 103, 118–119, 130, 139, 141, 187, 202

• saccades 86–87, 90, 91, 93–94, 96–97, 99, 104–106

• Saudi Sentence Repetition Task 155, 163

• Saudi-SRTSee Saudi Sentence Repetition Task

• scoring 12, 127, 144, 155, 160, 162–171, 177–178, 185, 188–191, 193, 195–199, 203–204

• segmentation 35, 42, 55, 113–114

• selection criteria156

• Semitic languages 11, 23, 54, 85, 91

• sentential complements 157, 165–169

• SLISee Specific Language Impairment

• speaking ability 213, 231

• Specific Language Impairment 9, 144–145, 180, 208

• spectrography2

• speech perception 11–12, 111, 120–121, 125–126, 128, 136–137, 140–141, 143, 182, 202

• spoken word recognition 6, 13, 19, 111, 119–120

• structural scoring 160, 163, 167–168

• SWIFT model92

• TD childrenSee typically developing children

• tense
  • past154
  • present 154, 157–158, 165–171

• Test of Danish Receptive Morphology152

• test of language development 160, 163, 165

• Theory of Mind149

• ToMSee Theory of Mind

• topicalisation 157, 165–169

• transposed letter effect4

• Tukey post hoc test 162, 165

• typically developing children 9, 141, 184–186, 189, 191, 196, 199, 201–202, 208, 210

• UHASee Urban Hijazi Arabic

• ultrasound2

• variability 57, 60–61, 69–77, 79–80, 87, 97, 100, 199, 210, 218, 222, 224, 230

• variation 4, 10, 11, 15, 52–53, 55, 57–58, 62, 64, 67–80, 102, 136–137

• videofluoroscopy2

• visual world paradigm 6, 111, 120, 122

• vowel 5, 6, 8, 10, 23, 25–27, 29–31, 34–35, 39, 42–44, 46–48, 52–54, 57, 59–62, 64, 66, 77–78, 98, 110, 186–187

• wh-questions

• object157

• Williams Syndrome 148, 173

• WNRepSee Arabic word and nonword repetition

• word
  • length 96, 104, 183, 185, 193
  • repetition 145, 178, 184–186, 190, 195–196, 198–202, 205–206
  • -skipping 11, 93, 96–99, 101

• wordlikeness 184, 186–187, 200–201, 204, 207

• working memory 141, 153, 180–181, 183–184, 198, 200, 207

• WSSee Williams syndrome