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Azza Al-Kendi · 2025 · Languages
This study examines the acoustic properties of vowels in foreigner-directed speech (FDS) in interactions between female Omani-Arabic-speaking employers and their foreign domestic helpers (FDHs). Particularly, it investigates whether Arabic corner vowels /i:/, /a:/, and /u:/ undergo acoustic adaptations in FDS. The study also explores the influence of foreign interlocutors’ psycholinguistic characteristics, such as degree of foreign accent, religion, and length of residence (LoR), on the extent of these adaptations. Data were collected from 22 Omani-Arabic-speaking women interacting with their
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Ahmad M. Abd El-Aziz · 2022 · Wadī Al-Nīl Lil Dirāsāt wa Al-Buẖūṯ Al-Insāniyyaẗ wa Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ wa Al-Tarbawiyyaẗ
This paper tries to investigate if there is a difference in the memory recall of emotional words between Arabic-English bilinguals. The methodology involves an experiment of free-recall responses to emotional word stimuli by 68 Egyptian Arabic-English bilinguals where the Arabic language is their native language (L1) and English language is their second language (L2). The participants divided into early English learners who acquired L2 at year 6, and late English learners who acquired L2 at year 12. A design of 2 x 2 x 3 three-way mixed ANOVA was administered with three independent variables;
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Mavadat Saidi · 2020 · Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice
The learners’ ability to write a well-organized argumentative essay has gained prominence within the last decades. The multiple intelligences play a significant role in enhancing the precision of both language and thought during the writing process. The current study aimed at investigating the possible relationship between linguistic and logical intelligences and the frequency of informal fallacies and evidence types in Iranian EFL learners’ argumentative essays. To the end, a total of 110 upper-intermediate EFL learners were asked to respond to the relevant items of Multiple Intelligences Dev
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Matt Hunt Gardner, Xinyu Leslie Liao · 2026 · Language and Cognition
Using 3,154 tokens from American English, we test whether optionality in verb–particle placement increases speech-planning cost, measured as pre-verbal silence. Tokens were coded for object properties, idiomaticity and verb frequency. We find that pre-verbal silence does not differ between split (pick the book up) and joined (pick up the book) orders. While idiomaticity favours the joined order, it does not raise planning cost. Verb frequency shortens pauses only in fast speech, suggesting predictability acts lexically, not structurally. Choice symmetry does not lengthen pauses. We therefore f
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khawla Alobeidli, Mohammed AL Hourani · 2026 · مجلة الآداب
This study aimed to identify young people's attitudes toward the causes of drug use and its effects on the family and society. Data were collected through a questionnaire distributed to a sample of 143 students at the University of Sharjah. The results showed that less than half of the participants (42.0%) believed that a weak religious conscience is a reason for drug use, while nearly half (41.3%) agreed that bad company is one of the individual factors leading to drug use. Additionally, 30.8% of the participants were uncertain whether traveling for recreation contributes to drug use. The qua
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Elisa Scerrati, Zachary Estes · 2025 · Language and Cognition
The spatial interference effect, whereby words with implicit spatial associations (e.g., ‘bird’) hinder identification of unrelated visual targets (e.g., a square) at the associated locations (i.e., at the top of a display), has been demonstrated many times in English, although it has failed to replicate several times in Italian. The current study tested whether the replication failures in Italian may be due to insufficient semantic processing of the words. Indeed, while languages with highly inconsistent pronunciations, such as English, are more likely to involve semantic processing during wo
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