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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Najdi"”.
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The Acquisition of Negation in Najdi Arabic
… follows the development of negation of a Najdi speaking child. Previous negation studies have treated negation as one unit (NEG) regardless of its form in the adult language (no and not). This investigation provides a syntactic account of negation in Najdi in light of previous Arabic …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
… explores how Cairene Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, and Najdi Arabic speakers deal with complex syllable margins in their L2 English. While previous studies have attributed Cairene and Iraqi speakers’ pronunciations of English syllables that contain consonant clusters to transfer of allowed syllable …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
… explores how Cairene Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, and Najdi Arabic speakers deal with complex syllable margins in their L2 English. While previous studies have attributed Cairene and Iraqi speakers’ pronunciations of English syllables that contain consonant clusters to transfer of allowed syllable …
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Arabic pro-drop
… of each in both Standard Arabic and the Saudi Najdi dialect--the latter having seen little previous research in this area. The conclusion is that Najdi is very nearly syntactically identical to Standard Arabic with regard to the null subject parameter. The topic then shifts to discourse, and …
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An optimality-theoretic analysis of syllable structure in Qassimi Arabic
… syllable structure in Qassimi Arabic (QA), a Najdi dialect spoken in Al-Qassim region in Saudi Arabia. Syllable-related phenomena in QA have not been fully addressed and understood because QA has not received attention in the available literature on syllable structure within Arabic dialects. …
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Linguistic Variation and Change in the Dialect of Ha’il, Saudi Arabia: Feminine Suffixes.
… of Ha’il city, a dialect that belongs to the Najdi type of dialects, especially Northern Najdi. Two traditional linguistic features of Ha’ili Arabic (HA) are examined: the realisation of the feminine ending (ah) and realisation of the feminine plural suffix (a:t), in relation to three social …
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Young Saudis' Attitudes toward Saudi Pidgin Arabic
… (Bakir, 2010), as compared to their native Najdi Saudi Arabic (NSA) and English. This study was developed to clarify how the young Saudi participants communicated linguistically with their housemaids—the most numerous population of female foreign workers in Saudi Arabia. This investigation …
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The Sociolinguistic Correlates of Dialect Contact and Koineisation in Medini Arabic: Lenition and Resyllabification
… norms: ‘Bedouin’, in this study a sub-type of Najdi; and ‘Sedentary’, the traditional dialect of Medina (viz. Medini). The Bedouin group share the same origin and culture whilst the urban group come from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The first linguistic variable is (ʤ), which has …
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Dialect Variation and Change in Eastern Arabia: Al-Ahsa Dialect
… in eastern Arabia, a dialect that belongs to the Najdi type of dialects. The focus of this investigation is on the dialect spoken in the urban centres of Al-Ahsa (Hofuf and Mubarraz). Two salient vocalic features of AU dialect are examined against internal (linguistic) constraints and 3 external …
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
… on wh-movement in English by native speakers of Najdi Arabic to test whether it is possible for second language learners (L2) to acquire syntactic constraints that are not present in their first language (L1). According to the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis (Schwartz & Sprouse, 1996), L2 …
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The transfer of antibody from mother to foetus in the guinea-pig
In their early development and before their antibodyforming mechanism is fully established the young of mammals depend entirely on the maternal supply of antibodies. The passive transfer of immunity acquired by the young from its mother can occur before birth, after birth, or both. In man, rabbit …
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Hybrid Architecture within Najd Region, Saudi Arabia: Environmental, Cultural, Structural, and Functional Juxtapositions
The thesis investigates the concept of hybrid architecture as a juxtaposition of multiple architectural factors, including environmental, cultural, structural, and functional ones. The work examines the Najd region of Saudi Arabia and its historical and contemporary contexts concerning functional …