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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Modern Standard Arabic"”.
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Comparative Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA): An HPSG approach.
… a description of comparative constructions in Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth MSA) and develop an analysis for some of the facts framed within Head - driven Phrase Structure Grammar (henceforth, HPSG). To the best of my knowledge, MSA comparative constructions have not been addressed before …
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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
… examining the meaning of spatialprepositions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), critically examines traditional accounts ofthe semantic character and syntactic role of MSA prepositions and posits an alternativeapproach based on construction grammar theory and findings from interrogation ofcorpora. …
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Constructing Low Resource Approaches to Improve Speech-to-text Translation from Modern Standard Arabic to English
This thesis explores novel approaches to the Arabic-English speech-to-text translation task. First, we construct a novel Modern Standard Arabic speech and English text parallel dataset. Second, we propose a novel framework for leveraging unsupervised machine translation to improve speech-to-text …
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Bridging evolving identities and language persistence: A longitudinal study of motivational dynamics among Arab heritage learners of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Kuwaiti Arabic: A Socio-Phonological Perspective
… functional distribution that exists between the Arabic language and its varieties. This is the main drive behind diglossia. These varieties are part of the same language; hence, the term ‘diglossic-switching’ is employed when describing the alternation of speakers from one level to another. The …
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Semantic role labeling using rich morphological features
… features on semantic role labeling (SRL) in Modern Standard Arabic. This study provides the first rigorous examination of the effect of individual morphological attributes on the automatic classification of predicate-argument roles in Arabic. I obtain a classification accuracy comparable to …
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Context-dependent type-level models for unsupervised morpho-syntactic induction
… unsupervised segmentation systems on the Modern Standard Arabic Treebank data set. Finally, we showcase the utility of our unsupervised segmentation model for machine translation of the Levantine dialectal Arabic for which there is no known segmenter. We demonstrate that our segmenter …
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The Copula in Arabic: Description and Analysis
… a description and analysis of the copula in Arabic. More precisely, it concerns the copula in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). First, the thesis describes the copula syntactically. This includes defining the copula in Arabic, stating strategies used to form copular sentences, indicating possible …
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Lexical and Language Modeling of Diacritics and Morphemes in Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition
Arabic is a morphologically rich language which rarely displays diacritics. These two features of the language pose challenges when building Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Morphological complexity leads to many possible combinations of stems and affixes to form words, and produces …
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Systematic Polysemy in Arabic: A Generative Lexicon-based Account
… polysemy and examine its pervasiveness in Arabic (both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Jordanian Arabic (JA)). Systematic polysemy in this study is defined as the case where a lexeme has more than one distinct sense and the relationship between the senses is predictable by rules in …
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Variation in the educated spoken Arabic of Jordan with special reference to aspect in the verb phase
… role in language analysis, the educated spoken Arabic of Jordan (ESAJ) is recognized as a viable variety in the Arabic continuum, intersecting with modern standard Arabic (MSA) and the colloquials. The recognition of ESAJ raises serious questions against the concept of diglossia in its …
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Arabic Teachers' Perception of an Integrated Approach for Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language in Colleges and Universities in the United States
<p>This study examines the perception of Arabic teachers on whether an integrated approach is critical for students’ communicative competence in Arabic. Additionally, the study attempts to uncover what might be potential barriers to the integrated-approach program-wide implementation in the field …
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Teaching strategy for Arabic language teaching of 11 to 16-year-olds at Al-Iman School located in North West London, England, UK
… is to explain how and why there is no suitable standard programme to fulfill the comprehensive needs of migrant Iraqi and second generation British-Iraqi 11-16-year olds wishing to learn Arabic in community based, supplementary Saturday schools in London. The ultimate aims of this study are to …
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But and its Arabic Counterparts: A Relevance Theoretic Account
… but in English and its counterparts in Modern Standard Arabic, namely lākinna , lākin, and bal. The study focuses mainly on Blakemore’s (2002) relevance-theoretic account of but in which she argues that but encodes a procedural meaning that guides the hearer to interpret what follows as …
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The Goodman psycholinguistic model of English reading and its applicability to Semitic languages
… study investigated the reading process in Arabic by drawing on the Goodman Model of English Reading, and testing its applicability to Semitic languages. Due to the multi-tier nature of Arabic orthography (i.e. letters and diacritics), two questions were addressed: (1) how the …
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ISSUES IN THE SUBTITLING AND DUBBING OF ENGLISH-LANGUAGE FILMS INTO ARABIC: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
… films and television programmes into Arabic and suggests solutions for these problems. In the light of an examination of the generic features of audiovisual translation and of the particular cultural constraints inherent in translation for Arabic-speaking audiences, it is proposed that …
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Automatic Dialect and Accent Recognition and its Application to Speech Recognition
… test our best performing approach on four broad Arabic dialects, ten Arabic sub-dialects, American English vs. Indian English accents, American English Southern vs. Non-Southern, American dialects at the state level plus Canada, and three Portuguese dialects. Our experiments demonstrate that our …
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Case Endings in Spoken Standard Arabic
Morphologically marked case is a salient Standard Arabic feature without parallel in Arabic dialects. As such it is a grammatical system learned by native speakers of Arabic through formal education. Case endings are traditionally regarded as an essential feature of Standard Arabic, but …
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The (De-)Colonial Dynamics of Im-mobility in 21st Century Representations of Migration: An Interdisciplinary Study of (Counter-)Narratives around (North-)African ‘Harga’ to EU-rope
… array of harga-centred (counter-)narratives in Arabic and French, spanning different genres, produced in and around the Maghreb between 2015 and 2019. This specific timeframe is significant as it covers a period of heightened media attention to ‘South-North’ illegalised migrations on both sides …
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Computational measures of linguistic variation: a study of Arabic varieties
… between linguistic varieties. I compare five Arabic varieties – Modern Standard Arabic MSA, Gulf Arabic GA, Levantine Arabic LA, Egyptian Arabic EA, and Moroccan Arabic MA – considering both lexical and pronunciation variation. I introduce the idea of measuring the amount of linguistic …
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