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Diglossic and Orthographic Features of Reading Comprehension in Standard Arabic: The Primacy of the Spoken Language

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Abstract This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the abjad writing system of Arabic.
Elinor Saiegh‐Haddad, Rachel Schiff
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Learning to Read and Developmental Dyslexia in Hebrew

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Abstract The study of Hebrew, a non‐European language written in a non‐alphabetic (abjadic) script offers valuable insights into the science of reading beyond the well‐studied alphabetic scripts. Because reading development in Hebrew is shaped by the uniquely Semitic root‐and‐pattern morphology and the abjadic (predominantly consonantal) orthography ...
Adi Shechter, David L. Share
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Clitic-doubling and (non-)configurationality [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper we investigate Greek, an optional clitic doubling language not subject to Kaynes generalization (Jaeggli 1982), and we argue that in this language, doubled DPs are in A-positions. We propose that Greek clitics are formal features that move,
Alexiadou, Artemis, Anagnostopoulou, Elena   +1 more
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Estudio del empleo de los pronombres clíticos en un corpus oral de La Habana (Cuba)

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013
Esta investigación tiene por objeto un estudio del uso de los pronombres átonos (clíticos) en un corpus oral de La Habana (Cuba): El habla culta de la generación joven de La Habana.
Milagros Aleza
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AN ARGUMENT FOR NON‐AGREE‐DRIVEN MOVEMENT

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 229-253, August 2024.
Abstract This paper argues for the occurrence of movement that is not the by‐product of an Agree relation in which a probe searches for a goal. The hypothesis that not all instances of movement might be feature‐driven was entertained in early Minimalism, but it has nevertheless become widely assumed that all instances of syntactic movement should be ...
Saurov Syed, Andrew Simpson
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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Mansour Shabani, Sahar Taghipour   +2 more
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A Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Object Clitics and Pronouns in Ramallah Palestinian Arabic.

, 1985
This descriptive study of Palestinian Arabic, investigates the subject and object morphemes primarily from the viewpoint of morphology, syntax and semantics.
Abu Nahleh, Lamis Yacoub
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The phonology of A'ingae

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and ...
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
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Accusative clitics in the Bosnian language. Second position and the phase theory

U ovom se radu analizira sintaksički status akuzativnih klitika u bosanskom jeziku i njihovo pomjeranje u tzv. drugu poziciju (engl. second position clitics / Wackernagel clitics) s teorijskog polazišta tzv. minimalističkog programa (engl.
Resić, Elmira
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