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يحيى الظلمي Yahya Aldholmi

Associate Professor

Associate Professor & Head of Dep. of Linguistics

College of Language Sciences
Dep. of Linguistics, Floor 2, Office 2171

56696699
yaldholmi@ksu.edu.sa
publication
Conference Paper

Aldholmi, Alotaibi, Alrouqi, (2021) Rating Nonnativeness in L1-Japanese L2-Arabic Speakers’ Vowels. In 12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics: Athens

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12th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics
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publications
H Al-Tairi, Y Aldholmi (2025). Ultrasonic-Acoustic Investigation of the Tongue Retraction Spread of Arabic Emphatics: A Preliminary Study. Al-ʿArabiyya: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Arabic. 58(1), 1-31.

We conducted a comparative articulatory- acoustic investigation of the tongue retrac-

tion spread (RS) of triggering versus nontriggering segments (emphatics versus

plain), as well…

publications
Alshaikhmubarak, L. & Aldholmi, Y. (2025). The Influence of Native Language Rhythm on Speech Rate Perception in Unfamiliar Languages. Journal of Arabic Sciences & Humanities, 18(4), 9-49.

تسعى هذه الدراسة إلى الكشف عن تأثير النظام الإيقاعي للغة الأم في إدراك سرعة النطق للغة الأم واللغات غير المألوفة.

2025
publications
Alfaifi, E. Aldholmi, Y., Lee, T., Martin, JR., Mountain S. (2025) Upper Faifi as an Endangered Arabic Variety: A Philological, Descriptive, and Acoustic Study. Language Documentation & Conservation, 19(1), 176-200

The Faifi variety, classified as an Arabic dialect (albeit with controversy), is chiefly spoken in southwestern Saudi Arabia by a diminishing number of autochthonous Faifi people.

2024