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Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 19] 2016
► pp. 1–38

Typology, acquisition, and development

The view from Israeli Hebrew

| Tel Aviv University

This introductory chapter presents background on the typology, acquisition, and development of Israeli Hebrew in order to provide a shared frame of reference for readers’ perusal of the eleven chapters that follow. It starts by defining the overall goal of the volume, followed by an overview of prior research on acquisition of Hebrew since the 1980s. Salient features of the language are outlined in historical perspective, characterizing Modern Hebrew as a typologically mixed language, with consequences relevant to children’s acquisition of its phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntactic structure. Then follows a brief review of two key facets of the language that figure importantly in its acquisition and in various contributions of the present volume: the role of word-internal morphological structure and the uniquely Semitic features of consonantal roots, binyan verb patterns, and nominal mishkal patterns. The chapter concludes by summarizing the contents of the book, organized by different linguistic domains – phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse, and literacy – and covering periods of development from infancy to adolescence, based on varied sources of data and research methodologies and on distinct approaches to language and language acquisition.

Keywords: acquisition, child language research, derivational morphology, development, Hebrew, historical background, inflectional morphology, methodology, morphophonemics, phonology, sources of data, syntax, transcription, typology, word order
Published online: 25 August 2016
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2020. Chapter 11. Nominalizations. In Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], ► pp. 375 ff. DOI logo
Berman, Ruth A.
2022. The view from Hebrew: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language 42:6 ► pp. 740 ff. DOI logo
Berman, Ruth A. & Elitzur Dattner
2020. Introduction. In Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Bolozky, Shmuel & Ruth A. Berman
2020. Chapter 9. Parts of speech categories in the lexicon of Modern Hebrew. In Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], ► pp. 265 ff. DOI logo
Ravid, Dorit
2020. Chapter 8. Derivation. In Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], ► pp. 203 ff. DOI logo
Taube, Dana
2020. Chapter 10. Voice distinctions. In Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], ► pp. 331 ff. DOI logo
Tolchinsky, Liliana & Ruth A. Berman
2023. Growing into Language, DOI logo
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2020. Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], DOI logo
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2020. Transcription and Coding. Transcription, transliteration, Hebrew-specific coding. In Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], ► pp. xi ff. DOI logo

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