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Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri [PDF]
, 2011 Arabic was traditionally described as lughat al-Ρād ‘the language of Ρād’ due to the perceived unusualness of the sound. From Sībawayhi’s description, early Arabic Ρād was clearly a lateral or lateralized emphatic.
Al-Azraqi, M, Watson, JCE
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Arabic dialects in Turkey — towards a comparative typology [PDF]
, 2010 In a workshop devoted to Turkish dialects it is my pleasure to present a short survey of the dialectology of a language which is also spoken on the territory of Turkey and offers considerable dialect variation, namely ...
Jastrow, Otto
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Exploring Twitter as a Source of an Arabic Dialect Corpus [PDF]
, 2017 Given the lack of Arabic dialect text corpora in comparison with what is available for dialects of English and other languages, there is a need to create dialect text corpora for use in Arabic natural language processing.
Alshutayri, AOO, Atwell, E
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L’arabe dialectal marocain, entre centralisation et territorialisation
GlottopolIn recent years, several attempts to normalize and standardize a "common", "uniform" or "central" Moroccan Arabic have emerged in Morocco. However, this language does not have an authentic existence given the multiplicity of Moroccan Arabic dialects.
Mourad El Baroudi
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties
, 2018 Both research and commercial machine translation have so far neglected the importance of properly handling the spelling, lexical and grammar divergences occurring among language varieties.
Erofeeva, Aliia +2 more
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A detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]
, 2010 Until 1970, Ethio-Semitic was believed to be the only Semitic language sub-family in which the main correlate of “emphasis” is glottalization, a feature said at the time to be due to Cushitic influence. Since the work of T.M.
Bellem, A, Watson, JCE
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Features in Lexicography for Arabic Dialects: Multimedia Dictionary of the Syrian Dialect
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsThe linguistic situation in Arab countries is characterized by the presence of several variants of the Arabic language, which interact constantly, complicating the establishment of a lexical corpus for each dialect.
Natalia V. Novospasskaya, Aida D. Haddad
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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