Author: Tahira Sarwar
Supervisor: Tehreem Arshad, Sharmin Aslam Tarar, Farah Malik PhD
Degree: MS
Year: 2015-2017
University: Centre for Clinical Psychology, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract
The present study aimed to identify the acquisition of
grammatical forms of Urdu Verbs in Typically Developing
Children aged from 3 to 6 years. Verbs are the significant part of
every spoken language. They are one of the important
grammatical and syntactic structures. Urdu language has a variety
of grammatical forms of verbs. These grammatical forms include
Verb Root, Imperfective Participles, Perfective Participle, Verb
Infinitives, Transitive Compound Verbs, Intransitive Compound
Verbs, Tense Auxiliaries and Aspect Auxiliaries. These forms
highlight actions, states, mood, aspect and tense of these tenses in
daily usage. The developmental patterns of verbs were
investigated on the basis of age and gender. The Cross Sectional
Research Design was used. Sixty children residing in Lahore city
participated in the research. The self-constructed detailed parent
report form was used for initial screening of the participants. The
data was collected in the home environment after the screening.
Form focused semi structured elicitation technique involving co player tasks through imitative role play was used for the data elicitation. All the games were played using this technique. The
elicited data was transcribed for both language and statistical
analyses. Statistical results showed no significant differences in
the acquisition of grammatical forms of Urdu verbs on the bases
gender. There was no significant correlation of age with
acquisition of grammatical forms of Urdu verbs. The identified
acquisition patterns of Urdu Verbs might assist both in the theory
and research in the fields of applied linguistics, clinical
linguistics, speech and language pathology, special education and
mainstream education. These findings can serve as a basic layout
to develop assessment and treatment measure in the domain of
speech and language studies.
Keywords: Urdu Verbs, Verb Root, Imperfective Participles, Perfective Participle, Verb Infinitives, Transitive
Compound Verbs, Intransitive Compound Verbs, Tense Auxiliaries, Aspect Auxiliaries.
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