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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Semitic languages"”.
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The Goodman psycholinguistic model of English reading and its applicability to Semitic languages
… 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 absence/presence of diacritics affects the readers' performance on the reading tasks, and (2) how readers …
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The phonology of modern South Arabian Harsusi of Oman
… is one of the five Modern South Arabian (MSA) languages spoken in the Sultanate of Oman. It is one of the least studied and known about languages in this group of Semitic languages. It is considered as a shifting language by the Ethnologue (Simons, G. F. & Charles, D. F., 2018) with around 6000 …
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Insights into the genomic histories of diverse human populations using whole-genome sequencing analysis.
… ancestry that is associated with the spread of Semitic languages across the region during the Bronze Age. Finally, I identify novel variants that show evidence of selection, including signals of polygenic selection. This thesis fills an important gap in the study of diverse human populations, …
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The submorphemic structure of Amharic: toward a phonosemantic analysis
… that have been observed in various languages of the world, including the phonaesthemic analyses of English and other Indo-European languages. The initial phase of investigation on a comprehensive database of Amharic roots extracted from Kane’s (1991) Amharic-English dictionary …
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Investigating the Translation of Euphemism in the Quran from Arabic into English
… fits all. They may work well for Indo-European languages but may not for Semitic languages, for instance. They are often prescriptive, abstract and lack practical implications. Highly expressive and colourful components of any language are often deliberately substituted by euphemistic …
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Memorial inscriptions from Syria-Palestine: A study in genre and theology
Despite a large amount of scholarly work on memorial inscriptions from Syria-Palestine, no detailed and comprehensive analysis of the genre and theology as whole has been undertaken. While the inscriptions have been individually compared and contrasted to the biblical materials, they have not been …
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A Diachronic and Areal Perspective on Subordination in Syriac and North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic
… are closely related in many of the worlds languages as well as in Syriac and NENA. The eighth chapter provides a synthesis of the main findings. I argue that that certain syntactic structures remain relatively stable even though many other aspects of the language have changed. For example, …
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A unified framework to identify and extract uncertainty cues, holders, and scopes in one fell-swoop
… analysis has been restricted to specific languages, particularly English, and to specific linguistic genres, including biomedical and newswire texts, Wikipedia articles, and product reviews. In this research project, I attempt to address the aforementioned limitations of current research …
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Deep neural network acoustic models for multi-dialect Arabic speech recognition
… signals. Arabic is one of the oldest living languages and one of the oldest Semitic languages in the world, it is also the fifth most generally used language and is the mother tongue for roughly 200 million people. Arabic speech recognition has been a fertile area of reasearch over the …
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The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
… science in order to better analyse the languages of the Bible and the Qurʾān. Part of this work dealt with the issue of vocalisation in Semitic scripts, which lacked the letters required to precisely record all the vowels in their languages. Semitic scribes thus developed systems of …