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Sustainable Status Assessment of the Transit-Oriented Development in Doha’s Education City
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MDPI
, 2023 , Article)
Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar, has seen rapid growth in recent years, resulting in challenges that can be addressed through sustainable urban design strategies. Such approaches, including Transit-Oriented ...
Graphic politics in Eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomy - Nishaant Choksi (2021)
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Equinox Publishing
, 2023 , Book Review)
Although linguists and other social scientists proudly assert that India is a land of linguistic diversity and richness, there aren’t many empirical studies showing how this linguistics diversity is socially and culturally ...
Le Développement de la Compétence de Lecture-Compréhension des Textes Narratifs en Classe de FLE
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Yarmouk University
, 2023 , Article)
L’objectif de cette étude est de proposer des stratégies en vue du développement des compétences de lecture-compréhension des textes narratifs chez les apprenants arabophones en classe de français langue étrangère (FLE). ...
Muslim personal names in Urdu: Structure, meaning, and change
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De Gruyter
, 2023 , Article)
Based on an analysis of a corpus, in this study we examine: (a) the linguistic structure of Muslim personal names, (b) their etymological sources, and (c) some changing patterns among the younger generation. Firstly, we ...
The vowel system of Qatari Arabic: Evidence for peripheral/non-peripheral distinction between long and short vowels
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Cambridge University Press
, 2023 , Article)
Arabic has a vowel system with three long and three short monophthongs. One of the
parameters that accounts for qualitative differences between long and short vowels across
languages is tenseness/laxness of vowels located ...
Laryngeal realism and the voicing contrast in Khuzestani Arabic stops
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Cambridge University Press
, 2023 , Article)
In laryngeal realism (LR), laryngeal specification of stops is explained by direct maps of cues (e.g. VOT) onto privative phonological laryngeal features [voice] or [spread glottis]. Phonetic realization of the segments ...
Generational Changes in VOT in Qatari Arabic
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
, 2023 , Book chapter)
The current study investigates variation in production of VOT in voiceless stops in Qatari Arabic. In line with Labov’s Cascade model, longer VOT in this dialect might be viewed as a new variable developing in the metropolitan ...