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[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 19] 2016
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Development of Hebrew derivational morphology from preschool to adolescence

 | Tel Aviv University
 | Tel Aviv University
Published online: 25 August 2016
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Three main devices construct the content-word lexicon of Hebrew: (1) nonlinear affixation of root and pattern (e.g., adjective matok ‘sweet’ from the root m-t-q and pattern CaCoC);† (2) linear concatenation of stem plus suffix (the abstract noun metik-ut ‘sweet-ness’); and (3) reduplication (the adjective metaktak ‘sweetish’ with the reduplicative template C1eC2aC3C2aC3). The chapter delineates the emergence and consolidation of Hebrew derivational morphology from early childhood to adolescence, based on experimental and corpus-anchored studies targeting prototypical exemplars of these three devices. Findings reveal nonlinear formation as the basic, earliest-acquired structure of Hebrew content words. Linear concatenation emerges as a later device, adding more specific and semantically fine-grained lexical items. Reduplication, as a relatively marginal and less obligatory device, is mastered last. The picture that emerges situates morphology as a major typological factor organizing the lexicon and underlying word learning in Hebrew.
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2025. The Phonology‐Morphology Seesaw: Morpho‐Lexical Knowledge Replaces Phonological Awareness as the Key Predictor of Word Reading Fluency by Grade 4. Reading Research Quarterly 60:3 DOI logo
Michaly, Tamar & Anat Prior
2025. Spelling morphology in Hebrew: Comparing monolingual and bilingual children. Reading and Writing 38:7 ► pp. 1875 ff. DOI logo
Michaly, Tamar & Anat Prior
2025. Development of derivational morphological knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of modality and lexicality. Journal of Child Language 52:3 ► pp. 532 ff. DOI logo
Zwilling, Racheli & Dorit Ravid
2025. Later lexical development in Hebrew peer talk. Frontiers in Language Sciences 4 DOI logo
Levy-Shimon, Shany, Rachel Schiff & Dorit Ravid
2024. Spelling Aleph א in Hebrew. Written Language & Literacy 27:1 ► pp. 89 ff. DOI logo
Martinez, Dalia, Danielle Colenbrander, Tomohiro Inoue & George K. Georgiou
2024. How well do schoolchildren and adolescents know the form and meaning of different derivational suffixes? Evidence from a cross-sectional study. Applied Psycholinguistics 45:2 ► pp. 299 ff. DOI logo
Dattner, Elitzur, Orit Ashkenazi, Dorit Ravid & Ronit Levie
2023. Explaining dynamic morphological patterns in acquisition using Network Analysis. Morphology 33:4 ► pp. 511 ff. DOI logo
Dattner, Elitzur, Ronit Levie, Dorit Ravid & Orit Ashkenazi
2021. Patterns of Adaptation in Child-Directed and Child Speech in the Emergence of Hebrew Verbs. Frontiers in Psychology 12 DOI logo
Ravid, Dorit & Rachel Schiff
2021. Judging Hebrew adjective agreement across development: syntactic and morpho-syntactic awareness. Reading and Writing 34:1 ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
SHALHOUB-AWWAD, Yasmin & Maram KHAMIS-JUBRAN
2021. Distribution of Nominal Word-Patterns and Roots in Palestinian Arabic: A Developmental Perspective in Early Childhood. Journal of Child Language 48:3 ► pp. 569 ff. DOI logo
Bolozky, Shmuel & Ruth A. Berman
2020. Parts of speech categories in the lexicon of Modern Hebrew. In Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], ► pp. 265 ff. DOI logo
Levie, Ronit, Orit Ashkenazi, Shirly Eitan Stanzas, Rachel (Chelli) Zwilling, Efrat Raz, Liat Hershkovitz & Dorit Ravid
2020. The route to the derivational verb family in Hebrew: A psycholinguistic study of acquisition and development. Morphology 30:1 ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Ravid, Dorit
2020. Derivation. In Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew [Studies in Language Companion Series, 210], ► pp. 203 ff. DOI logo
Levie, Ronit, Elitzur Dattner, Racheli Zwilling, Hadas Rosenstein, Shirly Eitan Stanzas & Dorit Ravid
2019. Complexity and density of Hebrew verbs in preschool peer talk. The Mental Lexicon 14:2 ► pp. 237 ff. DOI logo
Shahar-Yames, Daphna, Zohar Eviatar & Anat Prior
2018. Separability of Lexical and Morphological Knowledge: Evidence from Language Minority Children. Frontiers in Psychology 9 DOI logo
Levie, Ronit, Galit Ben-Zvi & Dorit Ravid
2017. Morpho-lexical development in language impaired and typically developing Hebrew-speaking children from two SES backgrounds. Reading and Writing 30:5 ► pp. 1035 ff. DOI logo
Ravid, Dorit & Noa Assulin Tzabar
2017. Chapter 11. Compounding in early child speech: Hebrew peer talk 2–8. In Nominal Compound Acquisition [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 61], ► pp. 251 ff. DOI logo
Ravid, Dorit, O. Ashkenazi, Ronit Levie, G. Ben-Zadok, T. Grunwald & Steven Gillis
2016. Foundations of the early root category. In Acquisition and Development of Hebrew [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 19], ► pp. 95 ff. DOI logo

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