"This volume is the first systematic attempt to survey current progress in the relatively new field of Experimental Arabic Linguistics. While experimental work on Arabic linguistics has appeared sporadically in several venues in the past, the chapters in this book provide a more coherent picture of the exciting directions which the field is pursuing. They provide insights into the complex nature of the Arabic language and how native speakers process it, using cutting edge experimental methodologies in the fields of phonetics, psycholinguistics, and typical and atypical language development. This volume is of particular interest to scholars, researchers, and students at both the undergraduate and graduate level, in the fields of linguistics and language studies and can be a point of reference for scholars and researchers in the fields of theoretical and experimental Arabic linguistics"--.

• Experimental Arabic Linguistics
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Experimental approaches to Arabic linguistics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Experimental Arabic linguistics
    • 2.1 Experimental phonetics
    • 2.2 Psycholinguistic studies
    • 2.3 Eye-tracking studies
    • 2.4 Neurophysiological studies
    • 2.5 Typical and atypical language development
  • 3. Papers in this volume
  • References
• I. Experimental phonetics
  • Articulatory and acoustic correlates of pharyngealization and pharyngealization spread in cairene Arabic: A real-time magnetic resonance imaging study
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Review of literature
      • 2.1 Acoustic correlates of pharyngealization
      • 2.2 Articulatory correlates of pharyngealization
      • 2.3 MRI in phonetic studies on Arabic
    • 3. Pharyngealization as a phonological feature
      • 3.1 A discussion of coarticulation, coproduction, and spread
      • 3.2 Phonological studies on the spread of pharyngealization
    • 4. Research statement
    • 5. Data acquisition
      • 5.1 Articulatory data acquisition
      • 5.2 Acoustic data acquisition
    • 6. Test material
    • 7. Data analysis
      • 7.1 Articulatory data analysis
      • 7.2 Acoustic data analysis
    • 8. Results
      • 8.1 Results from articulatory data
      • 8.2 Results from acoustic data
    • 9. Discussion
      • 9.1 Discussion of articulatory results
      • 9.2 Discussion of acoustic results
    • 10. Conclusions
    • References
  • Affricate variation in Emirati Arabic: An exploratory study
    • 1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Arabic in the United Arab Emirates
      • 1.2 k-affrication
      • 1.3 dʒ-deaffrication
      • 1.4 Objectives
    • 2. Methodology
      • 2.1 Participants
      • 2.2 Stimuli
      • 2.3 Experimental data collection and procedure
      • 2.4 Corpus study
      • 2.5 Corpus study procedure
    • 3. Corpus study results
      • 3.1 Phonological effects
      • 3.2 Lexical effects
    • 4. Experimental study results
      • 4.1 Lexical effects
      • 4.2 Speaker effects
      • 4.3 Sociophonetic factors
    • 5. Discussion
      • 5.1 Phonological factors
      • 5.2 Lexical constraints
    • 6. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
• II. Eye-tracking
  • Eye movements in Arabic reading: A Review of the current literature
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Mechanisms of eye movement control in reading
    • 3. The Perceptual span for reading
    • 4. Word factors affecting the spatial and temporal characteristics of eye movements
    • 5. Parafoveal processing in reading
    • 6. Models of eye movement control in reading
    • 7. The Arabic writing system
    • 8. Eye movement research on Arabic reading
    • 9. Final comments and future directions
    • References
  • An eye-tracking study of phonological awareness in Emirati Arabic
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Eye tracking
    • 3. The visual world paradigm
    • 4. Current study
    • 5. Method
      • 5.1 Participants
      • 5.2 Stimuli
      • 5.3 Design
      • 5.4 Procedure
      • 5.5 Measures
    • 6. Results
    • 7. Discussion
    • References
• III. Typical and atypical language development
  • LATFA: An assessment tool for Emirati Arabic-speaking children
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Methodology
    • 3. Phase 1: Oral language assessment
      • 3.1 Participants
      • 3.2 Procedure
      • 3.3 Speech perception task
      • 3.4 Phonological awareness task
      • 3.5 Morphological awareness task
      • 3.6 Phonological production task
    • 4. Phase 2: Literacy assessment
      • 4.1 Participants
      • 4.2 Procedure
      • 4.3 Arabic alphabet task
      • 4.4 Dictation task
      • 4.5 Arabic plurals task
    • 5. Results
    • 6. Discussion
    • 7. Future directions
    • Acknowledgements
    • Funding
    • References
  • Sentence repetition in children with autism spectrum disorder in Saudi Arabia: An investigation of morphosyntactic abilities
    • 1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Present study
    • 2. Methodology
      • 2.1 Participants
      • 2.2 Selection criteria
    • 3. Baseline tasks
    • 4. Experimental task: The Saudi-Arabic Sentence Repetition Task
      • 4.1 Scoring
      • 4.2 Procedure
    • 5. Results
      • 5.1 Baseline tasks
      • 5.2 The Saudi-Arabic sentence repetition task
    • 6. Discussion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • The relationship between word and nonword repetition and receptive and expressive vocabulary skills in Gulf Arabic speaking children
    • 1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Relationship between NWR and vocabulary in TD children and children with SLI
      • 1.2 Theories of NWR
      • 1.3 Factors affecting nonword accuracy
      • 1.4 The Arabic word and nonword repetition (WNRep) test
      • 1.5 Developing the Arabic expressive vocabulary test (AEVT)
    • 2. Methods
      • 2.1 Participants
      • 2.2 Procedures and scores
      • 2.3 Reliability
    • 3. Results and analysis
      • 3.1 Descriptive statistics of WNRep
      • 3.2 Groups’ performance on receptive and expressive vocabulary tests
      • 3.3 Correlation between word and nonword repetition and receptive and expressive vocabulary in TD children
      • 3.4 Regression analysis on the PPC scoring method for TD and CL children
    • 4. Discussion
      • 4.1 Summary of findings
      • 4.2 Theoretical interpretations and implications
      • 4.3 Word and nonword repetition as clinical markers
      • 4.4 Relations with receptive and expressive vocabulary
      • 4.5 Clinical implications
    • 5. Conclusion
    • References
  • An exploratory longitudinal study of vocabulary development in bilingually exposed children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United Arab Emirates
    • 1. Introduction
      • 1.1 Autism spectrum disorder
      • 1.2 Autism spectrum disorder and bilingualism
    • 2. Methods
      • 2.1 Participants
      • 2.2 Procedures
    • 3. Results
      • 3.1 Descriptive statistics
      • 3.2 Correlations between the four vocabulary tests
      • 3.3 Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)
      • 3.4 Variability in children with autism: Results based on speaking abilities
    • 4. Discussion and analysis
    • 5. Limitations and future directions
    • References
    • Appendix A. Correlations table
    • Appendix B. Pairwise comparisons
    • Appendix C. Correlations based on speaking abilities
    • Appendix D.
• Index