Fauzia Abdalla

Biographic Data

ID9273731
NAMEFauzia Abdalla
GIVEN NAMESFauzia
FAMILY NAMEAbdalla
SIGNATUREABDALLA F
AFFILIATIONSKuwait University, Kuwait
ORCID0000-0003-4067-204X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
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…

  • 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…

  • Developmental changes in using nominal number inflections in Kuwaiti Arabic

    Open AccessKhawla Aljenaie, Fauzia Abdalla et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2011

    The acquisition of dual and plural nominal marking was examined. Forty-four Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children aged 4–9 years were presented with a set of pictured stimuli of real and nonsense words and were asked to provide the plural and dual form. The results showed that Feminine Sound Plural (FSP) was used early on and more frequently than the Masculine Sound Plural (MSP) and the Broken Plural (BP). FSP was noticeably employed as the default fo…