This study is a preliminary investigation of intonation in Emirati Arabic (EA)(an under-
researched Arabic dialect), using systematic acoustic analysis and computational modelling …

Language attitude research uncovers perceptions about the diversity of languages and
dialects. It follows how such diversity is stereotypically perceived, which influences the …

Research on various languages shows that dynamic approaches to vowel acoustics–in
particular Vowel-Inherent Spectral Change (VISC)–can play a vital role in characterising and …

Abstract Based on Mahboob and Elyas (World Engl 33 (1): 128–142, 2014), who identified
an expanding circle variety of Englishes, known as 'Saudi English', the present paper …

Language attitude research is mainly concerned with the opinions, beliefs, stereotypes and
prejudices that speakers hold with respect to certain language or speech varieties (Garrett …

Evidence is emerging of differences among Arabic dialects in their intonation patterns, along
known parameters of variation in prosodic typology. Through a series of brief case studies …

This overview of intonation in Arabic compares the intonational systems of selected Arabic
dialects from Morocco in the West to Kuwait in the East. The formal comparison will mainly …

Static cues such as formant measurements obtained at the vowel midpoint are usually taken
as the main correlate for vowel identification. However, dynamic cues such as vowel …

It is believed that the study of Arabic has been always pertained to the maintenance of its
fixed artificial syntax categories instead of treating it as a dynamic language (Esseesy 2010) …

The current study explores the Hijazi Arabic elements b-and raaħ when used as irrealis
mood markers expressing counterfactual and/or hypothetical meanings. Such meanings are …