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Yara AlShaalan يارا عبدالعزيز الشعلان

Assistant Professor

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College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Bldg.1, 3rd Floor, Office 117
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يارا عبدالعزيز الشعلان

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Scholarly Linguist with +10 years of experience researching Linguistics, focusing on Saudi Arabic. Knowledgeable about qualitative research; collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. Forward-thinking with great attention to detail and presentation skills.
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EDUCATION 

  • PhD in Linguistics UCL, London, UK
  • MA in Linguistics UCL, London, UK
  • BA in English Language KSU, Riyadh, SA

COMMITTEES

  • لجنة الدراسات العليا للغويات  (2021-present)  
  • وحدة الموارد البشرية (2021-present)  
  • Academic advising committee (2015-2016)  
  • Writing Centre (2012- 2015) 
  • Quality Committee (2012-2013)
  • Cultural Committee (2012-2013)

INTERESTS

  • Theoretical Linguistics
  • Syntax & Morphology
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Sociolinguistics

RESEARCH

  • Manuscript: Sluicing in Arabic: A systematic review (2022).
  • Abstract: ‘Can Saudi speakers allow long readings in English contrast sluicing with islands?’ presented at SLE Workshop proposal: Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (2021).
  • Published article: Alshaalan, Yara, and Klaus Abels. "Resumption as a sluicing source in Saudi Arabic: Evidence from sluicing with prepositional phrases." Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5.1 (2020).
  • Oral presentation: Is there syntax at the e-site? Acceptability experiments on Saudi Arabic sluicing’ Experimental and Corpus-based Approached to Ellipsis, Davis, CA, USA (2019).
  • Oral presentation: P-stranding in Saudi Arabic sluicing. UCL, London, UK (2018).
  • Poster presentation: The apparent P-stranding effect in Saudi Arabic sluicing. 12th Newcastle upon Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics, Newcastle University, UK (2017).
  • Oral presentation: Alshaalan, Yara & Alghamdi, Rana. The typology of wh-questions on Saudi Arabic. the 3rd Talking Linguistic Seminar, KSU, Riyadh, SA (2016).