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Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: self-paced reading evidence from Arabic
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Frontiers Media
, 2015 , Article)
In the processing of subject-verb agreement, non-subject plural nouns following a singular subject sometimes “attract” the agreement with the verb, despite not being grammatically licensed to do so. This phenomenon generates ...
Effect of emphasis spread on coronal stop articulation in Qatari Arabic
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Linguistic Society of America
, 2020 , Conference Proceedings)
Emphasis (contrastive uvularisation) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments (Davis1995). The effect of emphasis spread on a consonant is manifested as lowering of its spectral mean (Jongman ...
Voice and Emphasis in Arabic Coronal Stops: Evidence for Phonological Compensation
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SAGE
, 2021 , Article)
The current study investigates multiple acoustic cues–voice onset time (VOT), spectral center of gravity (SCG) of burst, pitch (F0), and frequencies of the first (F1) and second (F2) formants at vowel onset—associated with ...
Can the word superiority effect be modulated by serial position and prosodic structure?
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Frontiers Media
, 2022 , Article)
In this study, we examined the word superiority effect in Arabic and English, two languages with significantly different morphological and writing systems. Thirty-two Arabic-English bilingual speakers performed a post-cued ...