Early Phonological and Lexical Development of a Farsi Speaking Child: A Longitudinal Case Study

Subject Areas : آموزش زبان انگلیسی

محمد حسین کشاورز ¹ , محمد احمدی صفا ²

1 - Teacher Training University
2 - Bu Ali Sina University

Received: 2016-06-20 Accepted : 2016-06-20 Published : 2010-05-22

Keywords: Farsi, First Language, Holophrastic Stage, Lexical Development, Phonological Development,

Abstract :

The present study aims at the description and analysis of the phonological and lexical development of a child who is acquiring Farsi as his first language. The child's language production at the holophrastic stage of language development, mainly single words, is observed and recorded longitudinally for nearly seven months since he was 16 months old until he turned 23 months. An attempt is made to see if the phonological and lexical findings of the same period found in other languages are confirmed in the case of Farsi (an Indo-European language). Issues like noun dominance in the early words, vocabulary spurt of the toddlers, and the dominant CVCV, CVC, CV syllabic structures are the focal points in this study. The significance of the study lies in the fact that the number of the studies done on the language development of monolingual Farsi speaking children is very few.

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