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The Manner of Articulation of the Emphatic /dˁ/ in Both Saudi and Palestinian Dialects
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2015
Pages:
1-7
Received:
16 December 2014
Accepted:
31 December 2014
Published:
19 January 2015
Abstract: This study aims at investigatingthe manner of articulation of the emphatic /dˁ/ sound in both the Saudi and Palestinian dialects. The subjects’ sound recordings have been digitized on a PC and analyzed via Praat.The results reveal that the Saudis produce /dˁ/ as an emphatic fricative, whereas the Palestinians as an emphatic plosive. The implications of this study suggest that /ðˁ/ (the fricative emphatic sound) and /dˁ/ (the plosive emphatic sound) merge into /ðˁ/ in Saudi Arabic, whereas they are distinct from one another in Palestinian Arabic. This is similar to Alani’s (1970: 46) finding that the /dˁ/ sound is pronounced as /ðˁ/ (emphatic fricative), but not as /dˁ/ (pharyngealized plosive) in Iraqi dialects except in the dialects of Iraqi Christians despite its orthographical representation as /dˁ/ in the writing system.
Abstract: This study aims at investigatingthe manner of articulation of the emphatic /dˁ/ sound in both the Saudi and Palestinian dialects. The subjects’ sound recordings have been digitized on a PC and analyzed via Praat.The results reveal that the Saudis produce /dˁ/ as an emphatic fricative, whereas the Palestinians as an emphatic plosive. The implication...
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Linguistic Features to Compile a Successful Scientific Discourse: Have Tunisian Novice Researchers Ever Seen Such Features during their Educational Career
Chokri Smaoui,
Elhoucine Essefi
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2015
Pages:
8-15
Received:
10 September 2014
Accepted:
14 October 2014
Published:
27 January 2015
Abstract: This work predicted the difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers with scientific writing by studying, in terms of Functional Linguistics, two linguistic features used in the scientific discourse: syntactic structures and hedging. This work shows the deficiency of the official programs in terms of the required skills to compile a successful scientific discourse. Results showed that Tunisian novice researchers have never seen such features during their acquisition of English. Thus, they may face the hard challenge of packaging the high content of information in such an expository discourse to reach the informative and rhetorical purpose of their scientific products.
Abstract: This work predicted the difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers with scientific writing by studying, in terms of Functional Linguistics, two linguistic features used in the scientific discourse: syntactic structures and hedging. This work shows the deficiency of the official programs in terms of the required skills to compile a successful scien...
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Research Article Revision and Error Analysis (EA): Have Tunisian Novice Researchers Learnt from their Errors
Chokri Smaoui,
Elhoucine Essefi
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2015
Pages:
16-21
Received:
23 September 2014
Accepted:
23 October 2014
Published:
27 January 2015
Abstract: This work tried to see whether Tunisian novice researchers have taken advantage of their errors or not. By studying a case study in terms of Corpus Linguistics, it was found out that difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers lie in their unfamiliarity with error terminology and with the tradition of the corrective feedback. This lacuna is inherited from the Tunisian official programs, which have excluded this endeavour from their interests. Thus, Tunisian novice researchers could not profit from the corrective feedback either during their educational career or during the revision process of their Research Articles.
Abstract: This work tried to see whether Tunisian novice researchers have taken advantage of their errors or not. By studying a case study in terms of Corpus Linguistics, it was found out that difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers lie in their unfamiliarity with error terminology and with the tradition of the corrective feedback. This lacuna is inherit...
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Reading Process as First Stage of the Publication Industry: Have Tunisian Novice Researchers Acquired the Appropriate Reading Skills to do a Good Literature Review
Chokri Smaoui,
Elhoucine Essefi
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2015
Pages:
22-26
Received:
23 September 2014
Accepted:
23 October 2014
Published:
27 January 2015
Abstract: This works predicted, by studying the deep rooted reasons behind difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers with efficient reading of the scientific genre, that difficulties are rooted in their educational system. It simulates the line of thinking of the strong version of the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH). The common point between the method of this work and the strong version of the CAH lies in using a predictive approach. By confusing its social and scientific status, this system neglected the importance of English in scientific communication. Furthermore, the weak programs and unskilled teachers in terms of scientific genre deepened these difficulties. Consequently, this study based on Contrastive Linguistics foresaw that Tunisian novice researchers are more than likely to fail doing the first and vital stage of the publication industry: the literature review.
Abstract: This works predicted, by studying the deep rooted reasons behind difficulties of Tunisian novice researchers with efficient reading of the scientific genre, that difficulties are rooted in their educational system. It simulates the line of thinking of the strong version of the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis (CAH). The common point between the meth...
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Mental Space Elements of Vietnamese and English Perception Verbs
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2015
Pages:
27-32
Received:
21 January 2015
Accepted:
2 February 2015
Published:
10 February 2015
Abstract: Perception is the procedure by which we interpret information about the environment that surrounds us. We can also say that perception is the gate to cognition. The perception process gives feedback about others and us. It is not always based on true picture of reality and we behave as though our perceptions are real. There are three key attributes to perception. The first is raw data. That is the information we experience. The second is the mental process, which is unseen but affected by things. The third is the product or that is our perception, sensing, or interpretation of our experience. In this article, we examine part of the second, the mental space elements of the perception verbs, Vietnamese and English in contrast. We inspected and collected 3,946 sentences with perception verbs as research data from two sets of English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English bilingual novels: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Love after war. We then used classify, statistic, descriptive, analysis, and contrastive methods to examine the research data. The results we have achieved for this research question are as followed. Basic mental space elements of the perception verbs include tangible and intangible factors. Tangible factors are preceptor/perceiver/experience/agent, perceived/stimulus, and perception organs. Intangible factors include spatial elements, ontological elements and information elements. Spatial elements are location, distance, path, direction, definition, layer, planning. Ontological elements are volition (volitional and non-volitional), way of cognition, sentient ability, culture, knowledge, ethnicity, geographic location, and way of thinking. Information elements are viewpoint and target.
Abstract: Perception is the procedure by which we interpret information about the environment that surrounds us. We can also say that perception is the gate to cognition. The perception process gives feedback about others and us. It is not always based on true picture of reality and we behave as though our perceptions are real. There are three key attributes...
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