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Saudi Women's Experiences of Sexual and Relational Changes During the Menopause Transition

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study aims to understand Saudi women's experiences of sexual and relational changes during the menopause transition. Design A qualitative, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study. Methods Sixteen Saudi women aged 45–57 who had experienced natural menopause transition were purposively selected and interviewed using semi ...
Samar Alotaibi, Sharron Hinchliff, Parveen Ali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of first and second language reading, first language low‐level skills, and working memory in second language writing

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Our research investigated how L2 and L1 reading, L1 low‐level skills and working memory are related to ratings and the linguistic characteristics (productivity, cohesion, lexical sophistication and diversity, syntactic complexity, and accuracy) of argumentative and narrative texts. The research was conducted in Hungary with 95 secondary school
Judit Kormos, Csilla Bartha
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

THE EFFECTS OF AGE AND GENDER ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN THE QASSIMI ARABIC DIALECT

, 2021
Yousef Al-Rojaie, Qassim University, Al-Rojaie, Yousef, Erica Benson, Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Victor, Fung, Lisa, Rosalva Vargas, Mary Bucholtz, Nancy Victor, Fung, Rosalva Vargas, Lisa, Bronwen Evans, Iverson Paul, Cynthia Clopper, B David, Pisoni, Cynthia Clopper, B David, Pisoni, Cukor-Avila, Patricia, Lisa Jeon, Patricia Rector, Tiwari Chetan, Shelton Zak, Mahide Demirci, Mahide Demirci, Kleiner Brian, Betsy Evans, Betsy Evans, Atiqa Hachimi, Laura Hartley, Fumio Inoue, Lawrence Kuiper, Danial Long, Chris Montgomery, Stoeckle Philipp, Dennis Preston, Dennis Preston, Dennis Preston, Irene Theodoropoulou, Tyler Joseph, Qingyang Yan   +46 more
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National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
wiley   +1 more source

World Englishes, heterodoxy, and applied linguistics

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract It is understandable that many people find it challenging to adopt a positive moral position with regard to English and its role in the world. The language is used in many contexts and situations to prop up systems of discrimination and inequality, leading to negative material and symbolic outcomes.
Christopher Jenks
wiley   +1 more source

Subdivisions of Faifi Arabic: a perceptual dialectology approach

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This paper investigates the perspectives held by native speakers of Faifi Arabic concerning the categorization of Faifi Arabic subdialects. Through the utilization of perceptual dialectology research techniques, participants engaged in two distinct tasks.
Abdullah Alfaifi
doaj   +1 more source

A Transformer-Based Neural Machine Translation Model for Arabic Dialects That Utilizes Subword Units. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2021
Baniata LH, Ampomah IKE, Park S.
europepmc   +1 more source

The impact of English on local languages: The case of Catalan universities

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with the somehow complex equilibrium of languages used in Catalonia, with a particular analysis of the role of English vis‐a‐vis the national language (Spanish) and the regional official language (Catalan). A discussion of the supremacy of standard languages over local ones in modern history, followed by an account of the ...
Enric Llurda
wiley   +1 more source

WHICH VARIETIES OF ARABIC TO LEARN

Human Research in Rehabilitation, 2020
Teaching Arabic as a foreign language is very specific for different reasons. The main obstacle in searching for the optimal and effective teaching model for the Arabic language is the pronounced diglossia, a situation in which two languages or two ...
Andjelka Mitrovic
doaj