Acquisition of modern standard Arabic by speakers of different Arabic colloquial varieties

This thesis conducts an empirical investigation of Arabic speakers' underlying ultimate knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The goal is to determine whether these speakers' end-state MSA grammar can be classed as a native language (L I) type grammar or a second language (L2) type gr...

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Main Author: Alresaini, Sami Saleh
Published: University of York 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.583339