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Flaps and Trills in Najdi and Hijazi Arabic

International Journal of Linguistics, 2022
This study is an investigation of flaps and trills in Najdi and Hijazi Arabic, which are the most spoken Arabic varieties in Saudi Arabia. It focuses on how flaps and trills behave in relation to vowels and consonants in the two varieties of Arabic. The data in this study were collected from four Hijazi and five Najdi participants.
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Voicing Contrast in Najdi Arabic Stops: Implications for Laryngeal Realism [PDF]

, 2022
Ph.D. (Integrated) ThesisThe present study investigates the phonetic and phonological aspects of the voicing contrast in stops in Najdi Arabic, a dialect that has been found to contrast prevoiced and aspirated stops. This study discusses the implications
Al-Gamdi, Nief Aied
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The Shallow Structure Hypothesis and Sentence Processing in a Second Language

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH) has been highly influential in the study of adult second language (L2) acquisition. With respect to L2 sentence processing, the essential claim is that L2 speakers rely less on syntactic information and more on alternative sources of information (e.g., lexical semantics and discourse) than adult first ...
Kyle Swanson, A. Kate Miller
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The phonetic realization of obstruent clusters in Najdi Arabic: an exploratory study [PDF]

This study provides an acoustic analysis of the realization of the surface word-initial obstruent clusters that resulted from the deletion of short vowels in Najdi Arabic.
Setter, Jane, Alsabhan, Rana
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Complementizer Agreement in Najdi Arabic [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis proposes an analysis to account for complementizer agreement in Najdi Arabic. I motivate the clause structure of the left periphery following a cartographical approach initiated by Rizzi (1997, 1999), by which the placement of complementizers
Lewis, Robert
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Perceptual boundary of vowel quantity: a perceptual study of synthesized Arabic vowels

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study investigates how native speakers of Najdi and Cairene Arabic perceive the contrast between short and long vowels, focusing on the role of vowel duration.
Abdullah Alfaifi
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Cognate Object Constructions in Najdi Arabic: An HPSG Approach

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2023
Cognate object constructions (COCs) are known for their idiosyncratic properties in that they consist of an intransitive verb that takes an NP whose head is a verbal noun that is semantically and morphologically cognate to the verb. In Arabic literature, this topic is considered one of the understudied linguistic phenomena.
Seham A Alawadh, Abdulrahman A. Althawab
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Wh-questions in Najdi Arabic

, 2020
[ABSTRACT ONLY; NO FULL TEXT] Four strategies are available for forming wh-questions across Arabic dialects. Aoun, Benmamoun and Choeiri (2010) describe these four strategies with reference to Modern Standard Arabic and several dialects, focusing on ...
Mashhour, Hassan
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Low topics are not IP-external: a reply to Alzayid (2025)

Linguistics
This article defends the hypothesis that right-dislocated elements in Najdi Arabic (NA) are IP-internal low topics, contra Alzayid's (2025) recent claims of their IP-external status (Alzayid, Ali. 2025.
Jarrah Marwan
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Multidialectal translanguaging: teacher dialects as interactional resources for supporting advanced MSA comprehension

Frontiers in Education
This study examines how Arabic L2 teachers' multidialectal repertoires function as interactional resources to support advanced learners' comprehension of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Nasser Bin Ghali, Nada Bin Ghali
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