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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Standard Arabic"”.
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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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Comparative Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA): An HPSG approach.
… 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 but …
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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
… 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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The structure and functions of codeswitching between standard Arabic and dialectal Arabic
Codeswitching (CS) between Standard Arabic (SA) and Dialectal Arabic (DA) is a characteristic feature of Arabic bidialectal speech in a number of contexts. This dissertation focuses on two aspects related to this phenomenon, namely, its syntactic structure and its social functions in …
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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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The nature of a-movement in Arabic raising and passive structures
… the essential analyses of raising and passive in Standard Arabic. The dissertation not only discusses the two central analyses of argument movement in Standard Arabic but also provides key modifications of Soltan’s (2007) analysis of raising and passive structures, with data that Soltan did not …
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Arabic pro-drop
… goal of this thesis is to analyze pro-drop in Arabic in terms of its syntactic properties and the nature of its optionality in discourse. The paper begins with a comprehensive review of five syntactic properties assumed to be universal to pro-drop languages, and discusses the status of each in …
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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
… 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 the …
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Language in the Mirror: Language Ideologies, Schooling and Islam in Qatar
… old and new language ideologies regarding Arabic and English. As Qataris change their education systems in response to the economic development framework of the "knowledge economy," they are promoting language ideologies that designate English as useful for the economy and "global" …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Arabic Monosyllabic Word Recognition Materials
… evaluate, and psychometrically equate a set of Arabic monosyllabic word lists to use in the measurement of the word recognition score. Familiar Arabic monosyllabic words were digitally recorded by a native male talker from Jordan who was judged to have a standard Arabic dialect. Twenty native …
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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 outperforms …
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Psychometrically Equivalent Bisyllabic Words for Speech Reception Threshold Testing in Arabic
… develop, digitally record, evaluate, and equate Arabic bisyllabic words for use in testing speech reception threshold. Ninety frequently used bisyllabic words were digitally recorded by a male talker of standard Arabic. These words were presented to 20 normally hearing subjects in 2 dB increments …
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La Qiṣṣat Ḏī l-Qarnayn (“Storia del Bicorne”) e la tradizione arabo-occidentale del romanzo di Alessandro
… Ḏī l-Qarnayn (“The Story of the TwoHorned”), an Arabic version of the Alexander Romance, which we also examined within the framework of the Western-Arabic tradition of this literary cycle. The bipartite structure of this thesis reflects the two-fold interest of the Qiṣṣat Ḏī l-Qarnayn. In fact, …
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A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Language Attitudes Among Youth in Morocco
… attitudes that shape the presence of H codes (Standard Arabic and French) and an L code (Moroccan Arabic). This analysis of covert attitudes shows that these languages are not uniformly distributed along the poles of status and solidarity but rather are competing for both. In addition to the …
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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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