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K ALJENAIE<br />

Table 4 Osama’s longitud<strong>in</strong>al data used <strong>in</strong> the study a<br />

Osama<br />

SN<br />

Total Utterances C&I Utterances<br />

SL Age<br />

Number MLU Number MLU<br />

1 45m 2;0.17 301 1.37 298 1.37<br />

2 45m 2;1.1 317 1.65 305 1.65<br />

3 45m 2;1.14 325 1.67 314 1.69<br />

4 45m 2;1,.8 271 1.63 266 1.65<br />

5 45m 2;2.15 263 1.78 259 1.78<br />

6 45m 2;3.11 315 1.95 306 1.94<br />

7 45m 2;4.1 301 1.95 292 1.94<br />

8 45m 2:4.10 274 2.0 261 1.96<br />

9 45m 2;4.21 258 2.14 251 2.14<br />

10 45m 2;5.8 332 1.88 324 1.90<br />

11 45m 2;5.20 383 2.12 368 2.10<br />

12 45m 2;6.7 390 2.24 381 2.22<br />

a SN=session number; SL=session time length; Total=total number <strong>of</strong><br />

utterances; MLU=mean length <strong>of</strong> utterances; C&I=complete and<br />

<strong>in</strong>telligible.<br />

particular reason. In sample 10 the number <strong>of</strong> total utterances rose to three<br />

hundred (332) and kept on that level till the end <strong>of</strong> the study period.<br />

4.1 Tense and Agreement<br />

<strong>The</strong> follow<strong>in</strong>g tables present Sara and Osama’s implementation <strong>of</strong> the<br />

grammatical <strong>in</strong>flection <strong>in</strong> both present and past tense <strong>in</strong> comparison with<br />

the <strong>in</strong>correct use <strong>in</strong> the form <strong>of</strong> substitution errors.<br />

10

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