Does Diglossia Impact Brain Structure? Data from Swiss German Early Diglossic Speakers [PDF]
Brain Sciences(1) Background: Bilingualism has been reported to shape the brain by inducing cortical changes in cortical and subcortical language and executive networks.
Lea Berger +5 more
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The Impact of Diglossia on Executive Functions and on Reading in Arabic [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: In contrast to most other languages, where the spoken and written words are similar, children that have mastered Spoken Arabic (SA) learn to read a new written form of Arabic usually called Literary Arabic (LA).
Raphiq Ibrahim
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Increased Brain‐to‐Brain Synchronization During Literary Arabic Storytelling Following a Dialogic Reading Intervention: A Hyperscanning‐EEG Study [PDF]
Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 11, November 2025.A smaller difference between parent‐child brain synchronization for Literary Arabic (LA) versus Spoken Arabic (SA) after the intervention, compared to before. Following the DR intervention, greater scores in listening comprehension, executive functions, and processing speed tests were found.
Georgina Abu Ghanima +5 more
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The include network: Advancing cross‐linguistic equity in brain health research [PDF]
Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 6, June 2026.Abstract Speech and language measures are increasingly recognized as sensitive, scalable, non‐invasive markers of diverse brain disorders. Yet, current research is overwhelmingly English‐centric, neglecting the world's vast linguistic diversity and undermining these markers’ global applicability.
Adolfo M. García +13 more
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Arabic Aphasia Research Through a Clinical and Linguistic Lens: A Systematic Review of Current Limitations and Future Directions [PDF]
International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 60, Issue 4, July/August 2025.ABSTRACT Background Aphasia has been widely investigated for English and other Indo‐European languages such as German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish. It has been reported that published studies on Arabic aphasia only comprised five studies, accounting for only 0.40% of the total literature on aphasia between 2000 and 2009.
Tariq Khwaileh +4 more
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The use of formal language as a strong sign of verbal autistic children in diglossic communities: The case of Arabic [PDF]
Autism Research, Volume 17, Issue 12, Page 2579-2587, December 2024.Abstract The current study aimed to investigate whether the use of formal language (Modern Standard Arabic [MSA]) by young children in diglossic Arab communities offers diagnostic insights, especially for verbal autistic children and to further explore this phenomenon.
Konstantinos Francis +8 more
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The Enhanced Literate Mind Hypothesis [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 909-918, October 2025.Abstract In the present paper, we describe the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis. As individuals learn to read and write, they are, from then on, exposed to extensive written‐language input and become literate. We propose that acquisition and proficient processing of written language (“literacy”) leads to, both, increased language knowledge as ...
Falk Huettig, Jan Hulstijn
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Development and Relationships Between Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness and Word Reading in Spoken and Standard Arabic [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study addressed the development of and the relationship between foundational metalinguistic skills and word reading skills in Arabic. It compared Arabic-speaking children’s phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness, and voweled and ...
Rachel Schiff, Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
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Impact of Diglossia on Word and Non-word Repetition among Language Impaired and Typically Developing Arabic Native Speaking Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The study tested the impact of the phonological and lexical distance between a dialect of Palestinian Arabic spoken in the north of Israel (SpA) and Modern Standard Arabic (StA or MSA) on word and non-word repetition in children with specific language ...
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, Ola Ghawi-Dakwar
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Is Medieval French diglossic? New evidence on remnant V2 and register
Isogloss, 2022 An ongoing debate concerns the degree of diglossia of contemporary French, by which vernacular and normative registers display significant grammatical differences. Was diglossia characterizing Medieval French? This question is explored through the study
Pierre Larrivée
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