Abdessatar Mahfoudhi

Biographic Data

ID6200057
NAMEAbdessatar Mahfoudhi
GIVEN NAMESAbdessatar
FAMILY NAMEMahfoudhi
SIGNATUREMAHFOUDHI A
AFFILIATIONSAustralian University, Kuwait
ORCID0000-0001-5536-351X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Verb agreement production in Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder

    Fauzia Abdalla, Abdessatar Mahfoudhi et al.ARTICLELanguage Acquisition2024

    Verb morphology difficulties have been widely attested in children with developmental language disorder (DLD) who speak English and other languages. This research contributes data on a variety of Arabic, a richly inflected Semitic language. The current study examined the production of subject-verb agreement morphology in three groups of 30 monolingual Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children. Ten preschoolers diagnosed with DLD (M = 4;4 years) were compa…

  • Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children

    Open AccessNailah Al-Sulaihim, Fauzia Abdalla et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2024

    The objective of this study was to examine the development of derivational morphological structures in the productive language of Kuwaiti Arabic (KA)-speaking children. Participants were 512 typically developing Kuwaiti children aged 3;0 years to 7;11 years (243 boys and 269 girls). Five age groups at 1-year intervals were tested; each group was divided into four sub-groups at 3-month intervals. The children were examined using a tool designed to…

  • Attitudes of academics to special needs accommodations in Kuwait

    Gad Elbeheri, John Everatt et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018

    The purpose of this study was to identify factors associated with the perceptions of academics working in Kuwait towards potential accommodations for university students with disabilities. A focus on students with disabilities is relatively new in Kuwait, but this study considered staff within a university with the stated aim to support students with disabilities. An independent, anonymous online questionnaire was distributed to staff (76 respond…

  • Plural noun inflection in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment

    Open AccessFauzia Abdalla, Khawla Aljenaie et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2013

    This study examined the production of three types of noun plural inflections, feminine sound plural (FSP), masculine sound plural (MSP), and broken plural (BP) in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children with and without language impairment. A total of thirty-six Kuwaiti participants – twelve adults, twelve children with specific language impairment (SLI), and twelve typically developing age-matched controls (TD) were presented with twenty-seven pictured…

  • Writing Processes of EFL Students in argumentative Essays: A Case Study

    Abdessatar MahfoudhiARTICLEITL - International Journal of…2003

    The paper reports on a case study of the writing processes and products of Tunisian EFL university students in an argumentative essay. The data came from (i) audio-taped think-aloud protocols followed by immediate retrospective comments, (ii) experts' comments and grades on the subjects' products, and (iii) a questionnaire administered to the students. Results of the process analysis, using an adapted version of the coding scheme used by A. RAIME…

  • The Place of the Etymon and the Phonetic Matrix in the Arabic Mental Lexicon

    Open AccessAbdessatar MahfoudhiARTICLEJournal of Arabic and Islamic…1970

    Two units have traditionally been proposed as the basis of the organization of the Arabic lexicon: the root and the stem. The root approach, the most common, is based on the root and pattern theory of Arabic morphology (e.g., McCarthy 1981), which contends that derivation is based on the interleaving of consonantal roots into patterns. By contrast, the stem approach is based on the stem-based theory of Arabic morphology (e.g., Benmamoun 1999) who…