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The Impact of Diglossia on Executive Functions and on Reading in Arabic [PDF]

Brain Sciences
Background: 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Increased Brain-to-Brain Synchronization During Literary Arabic Storytelling Following a Dialogic Reading Intervention: A Hyperscanning-EEG Study. [PDF]

Brain Behav
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.
Ghanima GA, Haj M, Badarne A, Farah R, Masarwa A, Horowitz-Kraus T.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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, Michael Mouthon, Lea B. Jost, Sandra Schwab, Selma Aybek, Jean-Marie Annoni   +5 more
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The include network: Advancing cross-linguistic equity in brain health research. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
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.
García AM, de Leon J, Alladi S, Battista P, Birba A, Cappa SF, Costa Beber B, Jiang J, Kemmerer D, Montembeault M, Orozco-Arroyave JR, Gorno-Tempini ML, Tee BL, Include Network.   +13 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Arabic Aphasia Research Through a Clinical and Linguistic Lens: A Systematic Review of Current Limitations and Future Directions. [PDF]

Int J Lang Commun Disord
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.
Khwaileh T, Mustafawi E, Elbuy S, Numan N, Ulde S.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The use of formal language as a strong sign of verbal autistic children in diglossic communities: The case of Arabic. [PDF]

Autism Res
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.
Francis K, Alshammari N, Alsulaihim N, Aboukhamseen S, El Dardiri M, AlRashidi F, Ridha HA, Al-Hassan M, Terzi A.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Enhanced Literate Mind Hypothesis. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
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 ...
Huettig F, Hulstijn J.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew

Religions
The present article summarizes the research assembled in my book Diglossia in Ancient Hebrew (1990), which in turn was based on my doctoral dissertation of a decade earlier, “Evidence for Spoken Hebrew in Biblical Times” (1980).
Gary A. Rendsburg
exaly   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

Diglossia [PDF]

Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2022
AbstractDiglossia is, as far as the Arabic language is concerned, a concept that has been taken for granted, as much as it has been criticized. First, based on Ferguson’s article on diglossia and subsequent interpretations and ramifications of the concept and with a special focus on how language variability is discursively deployed and how it is ...
openaire   +1 more source