خلاصة:
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.
ملخص الجهاز:
"Vowel Positional Variation Examples Vowel Initial Middle Final / æ/ æmɪ, æzz, ælɪːlɪ:, dæf, dæsuːɪː, bæq dædæ, bæqæ, buːbbæ, dʒædæ / ɑː/ ɑːbgʊʃ,ɑ:tɪːʃ, ɑːne bɑːlɪ, bɑːd, dɑːdo, mɑːmɑː,qɑːqɑː, tɑːbtɑː, xodɑ: / e/ eses, elæl, ennæ tʃeʃ,neni:,henænæ mæne, sæbze, æbɑ:de, / ɪː/ dʒɪːʃ, dʒɪ:dʒɪ:,dɪːdɪ dɑ:tɪː, mɑːnɪ:, ælɪːlɪ:, ʃɪː /o/ otɑ:d,oduːn,oddɑː qos,qɑ:doq,nɑːqol dɑːdo, sɑ:bo, ælɑːho / uː/ uːduː, uːf, duːʃ,bu:q, duːd hæbuː, tuːtuː, uːduː The syllabic structure of the words produced by Mahdi confirms the earlier studies (Owens ,2001, O'Grady 2005) since syllabic structure of the words he produced in his holophrastic stage of language development was in the following order: Reduplicated CVCV was used almost 39.
What's more, due to the fact that a great majority of the nouns which Mahdi produced were referential type nouns, it seems that he is a referential child rather than expressive And, this is the point consistent with the findings of other studies reflecting the fact that, at the early stages of single word production, children are rather universally using words to refer to objects, and hence, are more referential type than expressive ( Owens, 2001; Barret, 1986; Barrett, et al.
In the case of the present subject referential type nouns are more frequent than expressive nouns, the finding which enables the researcher to call his subject a referential type child, and as stated before this is the point which is consistent with the findings of other studies, reflecting the fact that at the early stages of single word production, children are rather universally using words to refer to objects, and hence, are more referential type than expressive ( Owens, 2001; Barret, 1986; Barrett, et al."