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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 ...
Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar
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De Gruyter
, 2021 , Article)
This study examines the communication strategies employed by Qatar's government in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study contributes to a growing body of work on the sociolinguistics of crisis communication. We ...
“‘Pleading Human’ in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout”
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Routledge
, 2022 , Article)
This paper analyses Paul Beatty’s Booker Prize winning comic novel, The Sellout (2015), as it relates to theories of black posthumanism, as outlined in the work of Alexander Weheliye and Hortense Spillers. In the novel, ...
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 ...
الألفاظ والتعبيرات التمييزية المستخدمة في الصحافة اليمنية الإلكترونية
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مركز الحكمة للبحوث والدراسات - الجزائر
, 2021 , Article)
سعت الدراسة إلى رصد الأشكال الصحفية والألفاظ التمييزية والمتحيزة الواردة في التغطية الإخبارية في الصحافة اليمنية الإلكترونية خلال الحرب الدائرة أثناء إجراء هذه الدراسة، والمقارنة بين الألفاظ التمييزية والمتحيزة المستخدمة ...
Noisy zones of proximal development: Conversation in noisy classrooms
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2011 , Article)
Despite the importance of context in studies of language use, sociolinguists have ignored the impact of noise on conversational interaction. This inattention is of particular concern in classrooms where language is a ...
Collaborative translation of Wikipedia: with whom do trainee translators collaborate and for what purpose?
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Routledge
, 2022 , Article)
This study aims to establish a model of collaboration that illustrates the various channels of collaboration that (trainee) translators go through in the course of translation, who they collaborate with, and why they choose ...
Expect amazing! Branding Qatar as a sports tourism destination
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
This article focuses on the ways in which, after its successful bid to host the ‘mega event’ of World Cup 2022, Qatar is branded as a sports tourism destination in the online semioscape and linguascape of sports events. ...
Imageability, familiarity, and age of acquisition ratings for Arabic abstract nouns, abstract verbs and adjectives
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
, 2018 , Article)
To date, normative psycholinguistics research has mainly focused on establishing norms for producing databases for concrete words using standardized pictures, while abstract words have been subject to much less attention. ...
Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
Located at the crossroads of fact and fiction and relying on memory, autobiography defies easy categorization. This paper examines June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (2000). Jordan situates herself vis-à-vis her ...