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publications
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The chapter explores language attitudes and motivations to accent switches between the reflexes of /k/ in the colloquial speech of a diverse range of Saudi women and men from different…
Little attention has been given in the Arabic sociolinguistics literature on examining levelling influences across speakers of different dialects and social backgrounds. Moreover, the effect of…
The study examines the clitic [-ki] as it occurs in the second person feminine singular object/ possessive pronoun suffix of stem final consonants in the speech of Saudis of Arabic Najdi dialect…
courses
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The course explores different interdisciplinary areas of applied linguistics: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, and educational linguistics. The focus is on methodological…
This course surveys the major theories and research in first and second-language acquisition. Different theoretical approaches are examined and compared. The role of language universals, language…
The course analyzes language from two different but interrelated perspectives. It examines the boundary between semantics and pragmatics and the different approaches to meaning in language and…