Intro -- Experimental Arabic Linguistics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Experimental approaches to Arabic linguistics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experimental Arabic linguistics -- 2.1 Experimental phonetics -- 2.2 Psycholinguistic studies -- 2.3 Eye-tracking studies -- 2.4 Neurophysiological studies -- 2.5 Typical and atypical language development -- 3. Papers in this volume -- References -- I. Experimental phonetics -- Articulatory and acoustic correlates of pharyngealization and pharyngealization spread in cairene Arabic: A real-time magnetic resonance imaging study -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of literature -- 2.1 Acoustic correlates of pharyngealization -- 2.2 Articulatory correlates of pharyngealization -- 2.3 MRI in phonetic studies on Arabic -- 3. Pharyngealization as a phonological feature -- 3.1 A discussion of coarticulation, coproduction, and spread -- 3.2 Phonological studies on the spread of pharyngealization -- 4. Research statement -- 5. Data acquisition -- 5.1 Articulatory data acquisition -- 5.2 Acoustic data acquisition -- 6. Test material -- 7. Data analysis -- 7.1 Articulatory data analysis -- 7.2 Acoustic data analysis -- 8. Results -- 8.1 Results from articulatory data -- 8.2 Results from acoustic data -- 9. Discussion -- 9.1 Discussion of articulatory results -- 9.2 Discussion of acoustic results -- 10. Conclusions -- References -- Affricate variation in Emirati Arabic: An exploratory study -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Arabic in the United Arab Emirates -- 1.2 k-affrication -- 1.3 dʒ-deaffrication -- 1.4 Objectives -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Stimuli -- 2.3 Experimental data collection and procedure -- 2.4 Corpus study -- 2.5 Corpus study procedure -- 3. Corpus study results -- 3.1 Phonological effects -- 3.2 Lexical effects.

4. Experimental study results -- 4.1 Lexical effects -- 4.2 Speaker effects -- 4.3 Sociophonetic factors -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Phonological factors -- 5.2 Lexical constraints -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- II. Eye-tracking -- Eye movements in Arabic reading: A Review of the current literature -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mechanisms of eye movement control in reading -- 3. The Perceptual span for reading -- 4. Word factors affecting the spatial and temporal characteristics of eye movements -- 5. Parafoveal processing in reading -- 6. Models of eye movement control in reading -- 7. The Arabic writing system -- 8. Eye movement research on Arabic reading -- 9. Final comments and future directions -- References -- An eye-tracking study of phonological awareness in Emirati Arabic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Eye tracking -- 3. The visual world paradigm -- 4. Current study -- 5. Method -- 5.1 Participants -- 5.2 Stimuli -- 5.3 Design -- 5.4 Procedure -- 5.5 Measures -- 6. Results -- 7. Discussion -- References -- III. Typical and atypical language development -- LATFA: An assessment tool for Emirati Arabic-speaking children -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Phase 1: Oral language assessment -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Procedure -- 3.3 Speech perception task -- 3.4 Phonological awareness task -- 3.5 Morphological awareness task -- 3.6 Phonological production task -- 4. Phase 2: Literacy assessment -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Procedure -- 4.3 Arabic alphabet task -- 4.4 Dictation task -- 4.5 Arabic plurals task -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Future directions -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Sentence repetition in children with autism spectrum disorder in Saudi Arabia: An investigation of morphosyntactic abilities -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Present study -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Participants.

2.2 Selection criteria -- 3. Baseline tasks -- 4. Experimental task: The Saudi-Arabic Sentence Repetition Task -- 4.1 Scoring -- 4.2 Procedure -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Baseline tasks -- 5.2 The Saudi-Arabic sentence repetition task -- 6. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The relationship between word and nonword repetition and receptive and expressive vocabulary skills in Gulf Arabic speaking children -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Relationship between NWR and vocabulary in TD children and children with SLI -- 1.2 Theories of NWR -- 1.3 Factors affecting nonword accuracy -- 1.4 The Arabic word and nonword repetition (WNRep) test -- 1.5 Developing the Arabic expressive vocabulary test (AEVT) -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Procedures and scores -- 2.3 Reliability -- 3. Results and analysis -- 3.1 Descriptive statistics of WNRep -- 3.2 Groups' performance on receptive and expressive vocabulary tests -- 3.3 Correlation between word and nonword repetition and receptive and expressive vocabulary in TD children -- 3.4 Regression analysis on the PPC scoring method for TD and CL children -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Summary of findings -- 4.2 Theoretical interpretations and implications -- 4.3 Word and nonword repetition as clinical markers -- 4.4 Relations with receptive and expressive vocabulary -- 4.5 Clinical implications -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- An exploratory longitudinal study of vocabulary development in bilingually exposed children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United Arab Emirates -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Autism spectrum disorder -- 1.2 Autism spectrum disorder and bilingualism -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Procedures -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Descriptive statistics -- 3.2 Correlations between the four vocabulary tests -- 3.3 Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).

3.4 Variability in children with autism: Results based on speaking abilities -- 4. Discussion and analysis -- 5. Limitations and future directions -- References -- Appendix A. Correlations table -- Appendix B. Pairwise comparisons -- Appendix C. Correlations based on speaking abilities -- Appendix D. -- Index.

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