Download or read book Examining Arabic and English Stops and Vowels written by Debbie Barry and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Arabic and English Stops and Vowels: The Influence of Arabic on Voice Onset Times of /t, d/ and Vowel Formant Values in Arabic and EnglishThis is a final research project conducted for an Introduction to Phonetics course at Oakland University. The aim of the final project was to give the student an opportunity to use the techniques she had learned to analyze a foreign language of interest to her, and to analyze the English of a native speaker of that language. The author, a student in the class, conducted a contrastive analysis to see whether there were some areas of influence from the person's native language phonology on his English vowel system and pronunciation of English stops. The author focused on the contrast of Arabic and English, following a format set by the professor. (Oakland University bears no responsibility for the content of this study, and does not comment on the accuracy of the results. ~ Debbie Barry, 2014.)
Download or read book The Phonetics of Arabic written by William Henry Temple Gairdner and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigating Arabic written by Alaa Elgibali and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a major contribution to the field of Arabic linguistics. It gives in depth treatments of the current issues in Arabic linguistics and makes excellent readings for graduate courses and for linguists at large.
Download or read book Multilingualism and Bilingualism written by Sammy Beban Chumbow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in the area of bilingualism and multilingualism invariably produces fascinating insights. In the Europe of yesteryears, the paradigm of one nation one language was dominant and fashionable as a nation-building ideology that multilingualism was considered a curse, a demon that had to be exorcised. Today, the avalanche of empirical evidence of research findings has established multilingualism and pluralism as an ideal for national development. The nine chapters of this book provide further elucidations of the issue of benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism and also provide original research findings on developments in the areas of psychological dimensions of bilingualism and bilingualism in information retrieval systems. The book by its illuminating description and insightful analysis of issues of bilingualism will be of significant interest to scholars, researchers, and all concerned with bilingualism and multilingualism from whatever perspective.
Download or read book Phonology and Second Language Acquisition written by Jette G. Hansen Edwards and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application in L2 phonology. The book is divided into three parts, with each section unified by broad thematic content: Part I, “Theoretical Issues and Frameworks in L2 Phonology,” lays the groundwork for examining L2 phonological acquisition. Part II, “Second Language Speech Perception and Production,” examines these two aspects of L2 speech in more detail. Finally, Part III, “Technology, Training, and Curriculum,” bridges the gap between theory and practice. Each chapter examines theoretical frameworks, major research findings (both classic and recent), methodological issues and choices for conducting research in a particular area of L2 phonology, and major implications of the research findings for more general models of language acquisition and/or pedagogy.
Download or read book The Production of Arabic Vowels by English L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Arabic written by Eman Saadah and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is known that adult language learners often struggle to accurately pronounce unfamiliar sounds in the target language, but the extent and duration of the linguistic experience is found to affect native-like production of target segments. In order to explore the variability in speech production between language learners, I compare vowel production between heritage speakers of Arabic (HSs) and English L2 learners. More importantly, this phonetic investigation asks fundamental research questions such as: Whether one or two phonetic/phonological systems coexist in the mental organization of developing bilinguals? If early childhood exposure to the target language as experienced by HSs affects phonetic learning later in life, e.g., when the HS is an adult learner in a traditional classroom setting? Moreover, do bilinguals of varying proficiency levels process their languages in the same way? Depending on the linguistic experience, prior studies of speech production show that bilingual speakers may possess one or two phonetic/phonological systems for the two languages. Furthermore, exposure to the L2 in early childhood facilitates attainment of native-like L2 phone production. Specifically, Flege (1987), Mack (1989), and Guion (2002) show that early bilinguals are capable of acquiring fine-grained phonetic detail of their L2 more than late learners. In the present study, 12 HSs0́4 6 experienced (EHSs) and 6 inexperienced (IHSs(0́4as well as 12 L2 learners0́4 6 advanced (AL2) and 6 beginner (BL2)0́4were compared with 6 native speakers of Arabic. Subjects produced 2 repetitions for each of 114 CVC monosyllabic words, embedded medially in a fixed carrier phrase. Formant measures of F1 and F2 were taken (in Bark) at vowel midpoint. Unlike the L2 learners, the results reveal that HSs have acquired two phonetic/phonological systems for Arabic and English, demonstrating the significance of childhood exposure to target sounds in later phonetic attainment. Specifically, more experience in the target language results in more accurate vowel production as shown by EHSs producing values that are closer to target vowels than IHSs and so is the case for AL2 compared to BL2 learners. Presenting a great challenge for language educators and language programs in the United States, implications from comparing these distinct populations (HSs and L2 learners) are discussed in relation to phonological theory, specifically, the intersection between second language research (SLA) and teaching of heritage language instruction.
Download or read book Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics written by Hamid Ouali and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume presents cutting-edge research on Arabic linguistics. It features a set of papers which continue a long tradition of seeking new explanations for familiar or previously undiscovered structural patterns. While the papers illustrate a range of approaches, from formalist to functionalist, each paper combines rigorous analysis of a set of Arabic data within the context of explicit models of some aspect of human language. The volume consists of three sections, the first section devoted to phonetics and phonology, the second to syntax, and the third to language acquisition and language contact.
Download or read book Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers written by Mohamed Fathy Khalifa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a contrastive analysis of Arabs’ errors in English pronunciation regarding segmentals—consonants, consonant clusters, and vowels—and suprasegmentals—main word stress. It also explains the main interlingual reasons behind these errors, and presents some teaching suggestions for surmounting them. The findings show that the subjects substitute their own Arabic sounds for unfamiliar English ones, producing incorrect English sounds. In addition, they apply Arabic main word stress rules instead of English ones, producing incorrect English stress patterns. The book also shows that English sounds and stress patterns that are both different and more marked than corresponding Arabic ones caused learning difficulties for the subjects.
Download or read book Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXIX written by Hamid Ouali and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features a set of selected peer-reviewed articles, which represent research by some very prominent scholars and some promising researchers in the field. The articles cover a wide range of areas in Arabic linguistics, namely Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Language Acquisition. They also feature research on a number of Arabic dialects namely Egyptian Arabic, Emirati Arabic, Jordanian Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, Sudanese Arabic, and Syrian Arabic. Some of the contributions engage prominent issues that relate to current development in the Arabic speaking world. For example Reem Bassiouney’s paper is a significant contribution in that regard. Other contributions, such as the ones by Stuart Davis, Abdel-khalig Ali, Lababidi & Park, Ntelitheos & Idrissi, present innovative studies in Arabic Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, and Language Acquisition respectively. How Arabic can serve as a testing ground for some theoretical constructs and approaches is exemplified by Peter Hallman, Phil Crone, and Youssef Haddad’s contributions in the area of Syntax and its interface with other fields.
Download or read book Exploring Cross linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism written by Mark Amengual and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research.
Download or read book A Handbook on Introduction to Phonetics Phonology written by Ehsan Mohammed Abdelgadir and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook on Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology is meant for Semitic language users to overcome their language difficulties such as with pronunciation and facilitates better understanding. The book tries to discuss the differences and similarities between languages to help the students overcome the pronunciation and other linguistics problems. The comparative study of Arabic and English phonetics and phonology improves the students’ skill set and helps them use the English language effectively.
Download or read book Sound Patterns in Second Language Acquisition written by Allan James and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
Download or read book The Arabic Verb written by Warwick Danks and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean notion of the indivisible sign: form and meaning. Whilst Arabic forms are well-documented, the elucidation of the corresponding meanings has proved more challenging. Beginning with an examination of the verbal morphology of Modern Standard Arabic, including an evaluation of the significance of the consonantal root, this volume then concentrates on establishing the function of the vowel-lengthening verbal patterns (III and VI). It explores issues of mutuality and reciprocity, valency and transitivity, ultimately focusing on atelic lexical aspect as the unified meaning of these patterns. This study is rich in data and relies extensively upon contemporary examples (with transliteration and translation) to illustrate its arguments, adopting an empirical structuralist approach which is aimed both at general linguists and at specialist Arabists.
Download or read book Second Language Speech Learning written by Ratree Wayland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.
Download or read book Individual Learner Differences in SLA written by Janusz Arabski and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual Learner Differences in SLA addresses the apparently insoluble conflict between the unquestionably individual character of the process of second language acquisition / foreign language learning and the institutionalised, often inflexible character of formal instruction in which it takes place. How, then, is success in SLA so prevalent?
Download or read book Exploring Language and Linguistics written by Natalie Braber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the key concepts of linguistics and applies these concepts to real-world settings. Numerous learning features provide extensive student support.
Download or read book Surveillance of language development in pre school children written by Johannes Fellinger and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
