ABOUT GREETING TERMS IN JORDANIAN ARABIC

Agrammatism in Jordanian-Arabic speakers.

The studies of agrammatism show that not all morpho-syntactic elements are impaired to the same degree and that some of this variation may be due to language-specific differences. This study investigated the production of morpho-syntactic elements in 15 Jordanian-Arabic (JA) speaking individuals with agrammatism and 15 age-matched neurologically healthy individuals. Two experiments were conduct...

Acoustic Correlates of Emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: Preliminary Results

Most, if not all, dialects of the Arabic language are characterized by features of pharyngealization – traditionally called emphasis. This phenomenon has triggered a great amount of research as early as the eighth century AD. Classical Arab linguists have described emphasis in terms of production with scattered attempts to describe the vocal tract configuration during the production of emphatic...

Acoustics and perception of emphasis in Urban Jordanian Arabic

Acoustic and perceptual effects of emphasis, a secondary articulation in the posterior vocal tract, were investigated in Urban Jordanian Arabic. Twelve speakers of Jordanian Arabic recorded both consonants and vowels of monosyllabic minimal CVC pairs containing plain or emphatic consonants in initial and final position to investigate the extent of coarticulatory effects of emphasis. In general,...

Greeting from the Chairman

Translating Names and Technical Terms in Arabic Text

It is challenging to translate names and technical terms from English into Arabic. Translation is usually done phonetically: different alphabets and sound inventories force various compromises. For example, Peter Streams may come out as hr..~ ~ bytr szrymz. This process is called transliteration. We address here the reverse problem: given a foreign name or loanword in Arabic text, we want to re...