Speaking is a complicated procedure even when it’s done in one’s native language. Therefore, it becomes more the second or foreign This research focused on whether Arabic advanced learners of English language are still continuing to make errors present simple tense sentences particularly using third person singular -s. The pre-constructive approach section shows that were not tolerable, and sig...

A survey of adolescents (N = 1,488) documented third-person perception (TPP) regarding Facebook use and cyber bullying. As Facebook establishes itself as the dominant social network, users expose themselves to a level of bullying not possible in the analog world. The study found that 84% of adolescents (middle school through college undergraduates) use Facebook, and that most users log on daily...

1 Determiners and Coordinated Nouns in English Singular determiner with singular noun, plural determiner with plural noun: (1) a. a boy/that boy/*those boy b. those boys/*a boys/*that boys Singular determiner with coordinated singular nouns: (2) a. that boy and girl/a boy and girl b. *those boy and girl Plural verb agreement with coordinated singular nouns: (3) a. That boy and girl *is/are my f...

Many generativist accounts (e.g., Wexler, 1998) argue for very early knowledge of inflection on the basis of very low rates of person/number marking errors in young children's speech. However, studies of Spanish (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015) and Brazilian Portuguese (Rubino & Pine, 1998) have revealed that these low overall error rates actually hide important differences across the verb paradigm. ...

Purpose: Two-year-olds produce 3 person singular –s more accurately on verbs in sentencefinal compared to sentence-medial position. This study was designed to determine whether these sentence position effects can be explained by perceptual factors. Methods: For this purpose, we compared 22and 27-month-olds’ perception and elicited production of 3 person singular –s in sentence medial versus fin...

Mehri is one of six Modern South Arabian languages spoken in southern Arabia. These have been noted for their retention Semitic phonological and grammatical features that disappeared from other languages. Oman, Yemen, parts eastern Saudi Arabia, some Gulf States. classified by UNESCO as “definitely endangered”. Previous studies Omani Yemeni exist, but there no on are used Morphologically, the d...

This paper looks at mismatching phenomena in Romance languages that appear between verbs and pronouns (or similarly used nouns) when expressing the first person (plural and singular). It is well known that, relative to other pronouns, first person pronouns are more easily subject to meaning shift as well as to replacement by other expressions. This can be attributed to the pivotal function of f...