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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 ...
Yasser Albaty
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Word Stress in Saudi Najdi Arabic [PDF]
American International Journal of Social Science, 2019 exaly +2 more sources
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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Al‐Azhar and the Salafis in Egypt: Contestation of two traditions
, 2023 The Muslim World, Volume 113, Issue 3, Page 260-280, Summer 2023.
Raihan Ismail
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When Agreement isn't Agreement: Deflected Agreement in Najdi Arabic as Aspect
Glossa, 2023 In modern Arabic varieties, subject-verb agreement is complicated by plural nouns which can occur with both plural and singular verbs. These have been called strict and deflected agreement respectively.
Connor Caston Rouillier
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022 In Classical Arabic (CA), qad, a discourse particle has been extensively studied. However, the linguistic behavior of the different reflexes of the particle qad in Saudi varieties (SVs), namely gid, gīd, jid, and dzid, has not been studied.
Munira Al-Azraqi, Ahlam Alharbi
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Covert Contrast in Acquiring Fricatives by Preschool Children: Evidence From Najdi Arabic
SAGE Open, 2023 Covert contrast is the statistically reliable distinction between target language phonemes produced in the process of language acquisition that is nevertheless not perceived by a native speaker of that language.
Eman Altoeriqi, Mohammad Aljutaily
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A taxonomy of antonymy in Arabic: Egyptian and Saudi proverbs in comparison
Open Linguistics, 2021 This study has set out to identify, quantify, typify, and exemplify the discourse functions of canonical antonymy in Arabic paremiography by comparing two manually collected datasets from Egyptian and Saudi (Najdi) dialects.
Hassanein Hamada, Mahzari Mohammad
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The Sociolinguistic Salience of Linguistic Variables in Najdi Arabic
World Journal of English Language, 2022 This study examines the relative sociolinguistic salience of three linguistic variables in two Najdi dialects, the bedouin and sedentary dialects. The quantitative data elicited from sociolinguistic interviews in Alajmi (2019) shows that bedouins are converging on the sedentary dialect, to varying degrees across the variables.
Nasser Mohammed Alajmi +1 more
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2009 The extent to which native language transfer plays a role in second language (L2) learning is a very significant question in the field of second language acquisition (Gabriele, 2005; Schwartz and prouse, 1996).
Christensen, Erik
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