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Verb-Stranding VP Ellipsis in Najdi Arabic
International Journal of Linguistics Literature & TranslationThe main goal of this paper is to establish that Najdi Arabic (NA, henceforth) has the property of verb-stranding VP ellipsis. This claim is cross linguistically contingent on V-to-T movement. Four diagnostics of verb-stranding VP ellipsis have also been examined in NA: licensing of inflectional head, islands insensitivity, sloppy identity ...
Alsaud, Raneem, Albaty, Yasser
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Acoustic Characterization of Najdi Arabic Vowel System
, 2023 This study provides an acoustic description of thevowel system of Najdi Arabic, a major dialect spokenin Saudi Arabia. It aims to go beyond thephonological description provided by Ingham (1994)and offer an acoustic description of Najdi Arabicvowels. Fifteen native speakers of Najdi Arabic wererecorded reading CVC words containing all the NajdiArabic ...
Ghazi Algethami
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The Phonological Word in Najdi Arabic [PDF]
Journal of Education, Teaching and Social Studies, 2022 Numerous studies on Arabic linguistics make reference to the phonological word (PW) as a constituent that serves as the domain for various phonological phenomena, however, there is no clear and precise definition in the Arabic linguistics literature of what actually constitutes as a PW and whether it consists of just the bare morphological stem or ...
Alsuhaibani, Alwaleed A. +1 more
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Word-Based or Root-Based: Diminutives in Najdi Arabic
SAGE OpenLexeme and root are the prominent, competing morphological approaches that account for the building of words. This study presents a sample of diminutive and super-diminutive forms of native Arabic words and loans from English in the Buraydawi dialect of ...
Mohammad A. Alsamaani
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JACDI: WS-SF: A Short-Form Version of the Saudi Arabic Communicative Development Inventory. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Purpose This study addresses the lack of a short Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) form tailored to Saudi Arabic, specifically designed based on local norms, for assessing early communicative skills in toddlers. The JISH Arabic CDI: Words and Sentences Short‐Form (JACDI: WS‐SF) is introduced to meet this need. This tool is particularly
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Agreement in Najdi Arabic existential sentences
Folia LinguisticaAbstract It has been observed that existential sentences (ES) crosslinguistically display different agreement patterns. For instance, in the dialect of Najdi Arabic (NA) the ES shows interesting asymmetric agreement patterns.
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Children’s Acquisition of wh-questions in Najdi Arabic
International Journal of Linguistics Literature & TranslationThis study investigates the acquisition of subject wh-questions (Sub-WQs) and object wh-questions (Obj-WQs) in Najdi Arabic (NA). Drawing on a truth value judgment task (TVJT), the study tested 21 NA-speaking children aged 3 to 6 divided into three age groups, focusing on their comprehension of Sub-WQs and Obj-WQs using two wh-phrases: mi:n ‘who’ and ...
Amal S Almuqbil, Yasser Albaty
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ACOUSTIC EFFECTS OF DURATIONAL CUES IN THE PERCEPTION OF NAJDI ARABIC VOWEL CONTINUA
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2021 This paper explores how the manipulation of vowel duration as a perceptual cue influences listeners’ perceptual ability. Four native speakers of Najdi Arabic, a well-known variety of Arabic in the Arabian Peninsula, were tested on the perception of /a ...
Mahmoud Al Mahmoud
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The interaction between Nunation and English definiteness: the case of L1 Najdi and Hijazi speakers
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Various factors affect second language (L2) use of English. One of these is the first language (L1) influence on L2, in relation to the way L1 grammaticalises articles.
Abdulrahman Alzamil
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Agreement in Qassimi Spoken Arabi [PDF]
مجلة الدراسات الإنسانية والأدبية, 2021 This paper discusses the agreement system in one of the most distinguished Saudi dialects. Qassimi Spoken Arabic is a dialect, which is spoken by around 931,085 people living mainly in Al-Qassim Province, which is located in the center of Saudi Arabia ...
Salih Alzahrani
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