AL-Lisaniyyat

Sound dissonance in triliteral roots and its correlation with the distance between their places of articulation - Linguistic and statistical study

Humaid Ben Amer Ben Salem Al-Hajri — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

There are two common hypotheses explaining the phenomenon of sound dissonance in Arabic word structures.

The first is about the convergence of places of articulation and the second is about their divergence. According to these two hypotheses, sounds tend to be inconsistent within words and difficult to pronounce, if their places of articulation are very close or very far apart.

Some researchers have tried to study the issue from a statistical point of view, but the used methods have some shortcomings, which does not allow to reach a complete and precise understanding of this issue.

In addition, the results of some studies seemed contradictory, which requires a new scientific contribution to resolve the controversy over the explanation of this phenomenon.

Since both hypotheses are two aspects of the same factor, which is the distance between places of articulation, the present study sought to explore the statistical relationship between the sequence of sounds in lexical roots on the one hand, and the distance between their places of articulation on the other hand, using a statistical linguistic approach.

The results were almost decisive in favor of the convergence hypothesis rather than the divergence hypothesis.

Oral expression in the Arabic language curriculum in Algeria and Tunisia, First year of secondary education, letters - Critical analytical study

Asma Brahimi, Tahar loucif — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This study carried out a reading of the Arabic language curriculum for secondary education in Algeria and Tunisia, in order to identify the new perception of the teaching of oral expression following the reform of the curricula in the two countries. She sought to reveal the extent of her ability to develop a modern and global scientific vision making it possible to overcome the problems and difficulties of speaking. A fundamental problem was raised, represented by the following questions: Have these curricula succeeded in developing a coherent and integrated vision of the teaching of oral expression, in determining its content and objectives, in clarifying the method of teaching and assessment, and didactic approaches and strategies and course duration? Were they able to open up to modern approaches and rely on scientific developments in their teaching?

This study concludes that there is a need to develop a vision that takes into account the importance of oral expression, its status, its characteristics and its advantages, based on modern didactic approaches.

Neurolinguistics between cognitive intersection and terminological -From the chaos of the beginning to the problem of terminological overlap-

Aicha Ouggad — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Neurolinguistics is one of the most important contemporary studies in which different sciences intersect, such as mathematics, cognitive psychology, linguistics and neurology, constituting a contact between them that merges under a cognitive tendency and concepts and principles superimposed. This study is one of the modern branches associated with linguistic theories, taking a mathematical orientation, such as axis theory, to interpret linguistic structures according to the requirements of the mind and its intellect. The latter leads towards mental imagination based on the computer representation of the mind as an interactive center of several overlapping knowledges to achieve the understanding of human perceptions and thinking, which artificial intelligence seeks to emulate. Thus, in this research paper, we focused our attention on the problem of terminological overlap between neuroscience and other sciences, and we tried to demonstrate the importance of mathematics in the construction of neurolinguistic programming, while clarifying the role of mathematics in building electronic brains with a linguistic dimension.

Didactics of functional grammar in light of the textual approach and its impact on the development of comprehension in learners with learning disabilities.

Ali Belbahi, Sihem Laib — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Educational programs strive to provide learners with the skills of written comprehension, and this occurs at different educational levels. Therefore, it is essential to reconsider the way of treating the educational text in order to achieve the objectives, compatible skills and requirements of the emerging development in the field of language teaching. To do this, program development specialists have adopted a text-based pedagogical option, which is called "the textual approach".

In this modest research work, we were interested in highlighting the role played by the functional grammar teaching strategy in light of the textual approach for the development of reading comprehension skills in learners with learning difficulties, and in proposing a pedagogical approach based on grammatical comprehension that draws its principles from textual linguistics.

Criminal proof through language – Research on the role of the Voiceprint in the Forensic Linguistics-

Nadjwa Firane — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Linguistic sciences have evolved, opening up new prospects in contemporary scientific research, especially as they are coupled with other sciences as an institution of new interstitial sciences such as computer linguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, economic linguistics... The linguistics have also examined many legal issues through analysis of the language of the law. It was even deeper into crimes and crimes to establish these studies of a new international science called legal or criminal linguistics rights ", which made language a procedural tool in reaching perpetrators and defendants.

The research seeks to familiarize this science and its terms and procedural tools used in the language-based criminal investigation. It also focuses on another interstitial science called “Criminalistic Acoustics”, which is tasked with demonstrating how the linguistic and acoustic voiceprint become a determining factor in the detection of crime threads, clothes and executors, through the use of audio analytics and computers in this area.

Assimilation and Gemination in Arabic phonetics – Term and concept between ancients and contemporaries -

Mohamed Oulddali — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Assimilation and gemination are among the combinatorial phonetic terms which have experienced some conceptual confusion among Arabic phoneticians (ancient and contemporary). This research aims to define, in a precise manner, the conceptual components of the two terms in order to draw the boundaries between them. Assimilation and gemination have been found to be non-functional phonetic phenomena, used to facilitate pronunciation. However, gemination is not considered as a phenomenon of assimilation, but rather a type of dissimilation. This is why it must be distinguished by naming it with the foreign term: “Gemination”. Thus, gemination is not an assimilation by the insertion or fusion of one consonant into another during pronunciation, but rather the pronunciation of two consonants at the same time, ignoring the vowel between them.

Obstacles to evaluating education systems in developing countries

Ahlam Bechiri — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Countries around the world seek to develop their education systems and keep pace with civilization by scientific and cognitive development in various areas of life. They seek to invest in rising generations. This represents the main objective of any education system. For that, each country has a particular strategy through which it achieves its main objectives. Developing countries seek to achieve such goals. However, they face a number of difficulties and obstacles that prevent them from achieving their goals, such as:

- Adopting of an ambiguous strategy and taking hasty and improvised decisions in the management of the education sector.

- Weakness of the budget allocated to the education sector compared to that allocated by developed countries in terms of education.

- Overcrowding of educational classes and lack of modern technological means in educational institutions and in the classroom.

Based on what has been proposed, our study ends with a set of proposals, which are:

- Evaluating all the elements of the teaching-learning process separately, and then combining them in order to facilitate dealing with the part compared to the whole.

- Supporting strengths, addressing weaknesses and adopting a long-term, well-defined strategy.

Keywords: obstacles of evaluation, education systems, developing countries, ambiguous strategy.

Algerian dialect and its relationship with Warsh narration - The dialect of the Djelfa region and its surroundings as a model -

El Djabri Mansouri — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Arabic speakers communicate with each other in the Arab countries in the vernacular, and this language may vary from place to place.

It is not hidden from students that connection between colloquial language and classical language and its variations, as well as its connection to Qur'anic readings. Therefore, through this research titled: "Algerian colloquial and its connection to the Warsh narration, the dialect of the Djelfa region and its suburbs as a model," we aim to elucidate the connection of the Djelfa region's dialect with the Warsh narration.

Manifestations of the Speaking Self in the Debates of the Holy Qur’an

Ouahiba Khabil — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The topics of the debates are based on the consideration that they are an oral discourse in the process of pronouncing words in a deliberative manner between the presenter and the objector, so that the plurality of the subject voices expresses their entities and roles in the text.

This phenomenon, specific to verbal interaction, is what inspired us to address the issue of the polyphony of the subject voices in some models of the debates of the Holy Qur’an (the debates of Noah, Abraham and Moses, peace be upon them), given that verbal interaction in its most complete forms and its most eloquent objectives is found in the Holy Qur’an, which is a unique model in the meaning and construction that humanity refers to. In our study, we have exploited the "integrated deliberative" theses that focus on the speaker and the characteristic of "plurality" inherent in interactive discourse in an apparent or implicit manner, so that it is divided into self-production and receptivity on the one hand, and argumentation and controversy on the other hand.

Challenging the Free Morpheme and the Equivalence Constraints Counter- Evidence from Algerian Arabic/French Code Switching

Taoufik DJENNANE, Fatima Louati — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Within the structural approach to code switching scholarship, linguists’ focus has always been on intra-sentential switching with the aim to formulate grammatical constraints, which govern switching between two different linguistic systems. This paper considered Arabic/French mixed sentences from a structural standpoint and with reference to the free morpheme constraint and the equivalence constraint. The corpus of the study included eighty-nine intra-sentential switches, extracted from different audio-recordings of eight bilingual students. The findings revealed that Arabic-French switching is licensed in different sites within the same sentence/word, and it partially obeys the two constraints. In some cases, the two constraints could perfectly hold. In some other cases, they were invalid nullifying thus universal validity assigned to them earlier by Sankoff and Poplack.

Writing Academic Argument Paragraph A Challenge For Efl Students

Hanane Almi , Hanane Almi — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This study investigates the students' argument paragraph writing and aims to spot the difficulties they face and help them improve their competencies in writing argument paragraphs. The study adopted a mixed-method approach to collecting data from the students. A group of 34 first-year students were asked to write an argument paragraph as a consolidation task; the papers were carefully examined and corrected. Besides, a short structured questionnaire was delivered to the students to obtain insights about their writing difficulties. The results of the study showed that a good number of them still had difficulties with writing argument paragraphs. Among the problems they faced was the adaptation with the academic context. They failed to adjust their writing to the bounds of formality, coherence, and objectivity. The findings showed that grammar was another hindrance for the students. They still had problems with sentence structure and use of articles and punctuation marks. Some of them had problems with the paragraph format. The study suggests reviewing these aspects to help students develop their writing skills.

Code-switching In Facebook Live Sales: A Marketing Strategy In The Algerian Context

Zahira Belaidouni, Fatma Kherbache — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This study explores code-switching in Facebook Live sales in Algeria, assessing its impact as a marketing strategy. By analyzing ten such broadcasts, the study sheds light on the linguistic strategies and code-switching patterns that salespeople adopt. Further depth is added through the examination of viewer feedback and a survey of 47 respondents. The research outcomes identifies three types of code-switching: intersentential, intrasentential, and tag-switching, blending French and Arabic. The findings also reveals that online vendors’ use of code-switching could enhance persuasion, introduce variability, detail products, and reach diverse socioeconomic demographics. French here is used for its prestige, while Algerian Arabic serves to enhance comprehensibility and broaden customer appeal. However, excessive code-switching can alienate those with limited bilingual proficiency. The audience showed a preference for Algerian Arabic with French loanwords, reflecting the inherent bilingualism of social media users and societal diglossia. The study, in general, highlights code-switching’s persuasive impact in digital marketing, and emphasized the importance of considering audience language preferences and proficiency.