The Effect of Writing Direction and Task‐Specific Experience on Mapping Time and Numbers on Space [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciABSTRACT Mapping time and numbers on space is affected by the writing direction. In two experiments, we searched for an explanation of how writing scripts can influence the mental representation of time and number axes. We presented to participants either 2 months (written in their native language) or two numbers (Arabic numerals), one on the left and ...
Ordin M, El‐Dakhs D, Polyanskaya L.
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SEMITIC LINGUISTICS AND INDO–EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL GRAMMAR
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Convergence and secondary entropy in a macrodiachronic perspective
TIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2021 The theory of secondary convergence and entropy has had interesting results in the comparative linguistics of Semitic languages, as in the studies of Lutz Edzard who analyzed the secondary convergence between various Semitic languages once they were ...
Cyril Aslanov
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Risk Factors for Children's Vocabulary Performance: Background Variables and Parental Concerns. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Purpose This study aims to examine differences in vocabulary performance among Arabic‐speaking children ages 1;6–3;6, using a three‐domain theoretical framework (biological/genetic, developmental, and social/environmental factors), with particular focus on how these factors differ based on the presence of parental concerns.
Hashoul-Essa L, Armon-Lotem S.
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Linguistic Typology and Arabic’s Place Among World Languages
Şarkiyat Mecmuası, 2023 As one of the most important disciplines of today, linguistic typology is a science that examines and classifies languages through many aspects. Typology focuses more on the structural features of languages and examines languages withing certain ...
Ahmet Şen, Soner Akdağ
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New Readings and Interpretations on the Inscribed Stele from Ḥənzat (HS1)
Aethiopica, 2023 In 1974 the renowned Ethiopianist Lanfranco Ricci inspected the site of Ḥǝnzat in central Tǝgray. Inter alia, he inspected and photographed a stele with a lengthy inscription. In 2014, Yohannes Gebre Selassie published an article on an inscription which
Maria Bulakh, Yohannes Gebre Selassie
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Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, definiteness, and the construct state phenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper, the distribution of Coptic possessive constructions is defined in terms of syntactic constraints: the construction involving the linking element N- requires the obligatory (and simple) definiteness of the possessed noun as well as the ...
Egedi, Barbara
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIV: 2020
Aethiopica, 2022 Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIV ...
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX: 2016
Aethiopica, 2018 Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX ...
Maria Bulakh +2 more
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The Semantics of Locative Adpositions in Amharic
Aethiopica, 2021 This paper intends to describe the semantics of locative adpositions in Amharic, a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. The analysis is based on elicited data that were collected by using Bowerman and Pederson’s (1992) topological relations picture ...
Gashaw Arutie Asaye
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