Developmental Stages of the Acquisition of Negation and interrogation by Children Native Speakers of Qatari Dialect

Abstract

The developmental stages of Qatari Dialect interrogatives and negatives are described in this paper. Four children were included in this study, ranging in age from one year and six months to nine years. According to the stages of interrogation and negation development, the children move in successive steps in their acquisition of the linguistic structures. The investigation is an attempt to contribute further to our understanding of First Language Acquisition processes. Thus, from the data "rulesf1 were written and these were hypothesised as the representation of the child's internal rules for generating utterances