Abdullah Alfaifi
Biographic Data
| ID | 2093244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdullah Alfaifi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdullah |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfaifi |
| SIGNATURE | ALFAIFI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bisha |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4442-2491 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Differential reading positions
Linguistic landscape (LL) research in the Arab world has mapped which languages appear on public signs, but how readers evaluate those choices remains understudied. In an online survey, 235 L1 Arabic readers from four countries rated controlled sign stimuli across six language conditions and three institutional domains on dimensions including competence, comfort, professionalism, and accessibility. Mixed-effects models showed a systematic diverge…
Perceptual boundary of vowel quantity
This study investigates how native speakers of Najdi and Cairene Arabic perceive the contrast between short and long vowels, focusing on the role of vowel duration. Forty participants (20 per dialect) completed a forced-choice identification task using synthesized minimal pairs with systematically varied vowel durations. Mixed-effects logistic regression models were used to analyze how duration and dialect influenced responses. Duration was a str…
Prominence Assignment in Saudi Arabic
Languages differ in how they convey prominence and information structure (IS). In Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), a flexible word order language, new information focus is marked by accent, and contrastive focus by word order displacement (Moutaouakil, 1989). Traditionally, rigid word order languages rely on prosody, while flexible word order languages employ syntactic movement (Donati & Nespor, 2003; Cole, 2015). However, the combined use of word o…
Deriving surface opacity from serial interactions
Vowel epenthesis and stress patterns in Arabic dialects vary widely; understanding their interaction is crucial for phonological theory. This study investigates how different Arabic dialects handle medial CCC clusters and how stress assignment interacts with epenthesis. Specifically, we compare four dialects, Cairene (Egyptian), Hijazi, Lebanese and Iraqi, that exhibit distinct epenthesis placements. Using Optimality Theory with Harmonic Serialis…
Linguistic and Translational Errors on Bilingual Public Signs in the Saudi Southern Region
This study investigates the linguistic errors and mistranslation of bottom-up public signs (BUPSs) in a tourist area in the southern region of Saudi Arabia, namely Abha. It specifically aims to identify the types of linguistic errors and inaccurate translations found in the static BUPSs. It also examines the underlying causes behind these errors and proposes remedial strategies that could minimize them. A conceptual framework was developed based …
Gradient perception of geminate consonants in Arabic
Subdivisions of Faifi Arabic
This paper investigates the perspectives held by native speakers of Faifi Arabic concerning the categorization of Faifi Arabic subdialects. Through the utilization of perceptual dialectology research techniques, participants engaged in two distinct tasks. The first task entailed the grouping of phonological features to articulate their perceived classification of dialects. Subsequently, they were tasked with pinpointing on a map the locations whe…
Phonological substitution patterns in Yemeni Ibbi Arabic child speech
This study investigates phonological substitution patterns in the early speech of children acquiring Yemeni Ibbi Arabic (YIA) as their first language. The research aims to identify the characteristics and motivations behind these substitutions, drawing on data from three monolingual Arabic-speaking children aged between 1;9 and 3;6. The analysis reveals common substitution processes, including fronting, backing, lateralization, fortition, emphasi…
Gemination in Child Egyptian Arabic
This paper examines patterns of gemination in child Egyptian Arabic, with a focus on how gemination functions as a repair strategy, using data from the Egyptian Arabic Salama Corpus. The findings show that the phonological development of Egyptian Arabic-speaking children of geminated consonants correlates with previously established developmental stages. Initial stages involve the acquisition of labial geminates, transitioning through an increase…
Flipped Classroom and Psycholinguistic Factors
Psycholinguistic factors, i.e., motivation, foreign language anxiety, and self-confidence, affect adult EFL learners’ learning process in a major way, positively or negatively. Research studies show that in a conventional classroom setup psycholinguistic factors affect the learning process of a large number of adult EFL learners negatively because their motivation and self-confidence are low while their foreign language anxiety is high. In the pr…
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Flipped Classroom and Psycholinguistic Factors
Psycholinguistic factors, i.e., motivation, foreign language anxiety, and self-confidence, affect adult EFL learners’ learning process in a major way, positively or negatively. Research studies show that in a conventional classroom setup psycholinguistic factors affect the learning process of a large number of adult EFL learners negatively because their motivation and self-confidence are low while their foreign language anxiety is high. In the pr…
Subdivisions of Faifi Arabic
This paper investigates the perspectives held by native speakers of Faifi Arabic concerning the categorization of Faifi Arabic subdialects. Through the utilization of perceptual dialectology research techniques, participants engaged in two distinct tasks. The first task entailed the grouping of phonological features to articulate their perceived classification of dialects. Subsequently, they were tasked with pinpointing on a map the locations whe…
Phonological substitution patterns in Yemeni Ibbi Arabic child speech
This study investigates phonological substitution patterns in the early speech of children acquiring Yemeni Ibbi Arabic (YIA) as their first language. The research aims to identify the characteristics and motivations behind these substitutions, drawing on data from three monolingual Arabic-speaking children aged between 1;9 and 3;6. The analysis reveals common substitution processes, including fronting, backing, lateralization, fortition, emphasi…
Gemination in Child Egyptian Arabic
This paper examines patterns of gemination in child Egyptian Arabic, with a focus on how gemination functions as a repair strategy, using data from the Egyptian Arabic Salama Corpus. The findings show that the phonological development of Egyptian Arabic-speaking children of geminated consonants correlates with previously established developmental stages. Initial stages involve the acquisition of labial geminates, transitioning through an increase…
Prominence Assignment in Saudi Arabic
Languages differ in how they convey prominence and information structure (IS). In Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), a flexible word order language, new information focus is marked by accent, and contrastive focus by word order displacement (Moutaouakil, 1989). Traditionally, rigid word order languages rely on prosody, while flexible word order languages employ syntactic movement (Donati & Nespor, 2003; Cole, 2015). However, the combined use of word o…
Deriving surface opacity from serial interactions
Vowel epenthesis and stress patterns in Arabic dialects vary widely; understanding their interaction is crucial for phonological theory. This study investigates how different Arabic dialects handle medial CCC clusters and how stress assignment interacts with epenthesis. Specifically, we compare four dialects, Cairene (Egyptian), Hijazi, Lebanese and Iraqi, that exhibit distinct epenthesis placements. Using Optimality Theory with Harmonic Serialis…
Linguistic and Translational Errors on Bilingual Public Signs in the Saudi Southern Region
This study investigates the linguistic errors and mistranslation of bottom-up public signs (BUPSs) in a tourist area in the southern region of Saudi Arabia, namely Abha. It specifically aims to identify the types of linguistic errors and inaccurate translations found in the static BUPSs. It also examines the underlying causes behind these errors and proposes remedial strategies that could minimize them. A conceptual framework was developed based …
Gradient perception of geminate consonants in Arabic
Differential reading positions
Linguistic landscape (LL) research in the Arab world has mapped which languages appear on public signs, but how readers evaluate those choices remains understudied. In an online survey, 235 L1 Arabic readers from four countries rated controlled sign stimuli across six language conditions and three institutional domains on dimensions including competence, comfort, professionalism, and accessibility. Mixed-effects models showed a systematic diverge…
Perceptual boundary of vowel quantity
This study investigates how native speakers of Najdi and Cairene Arabic perceive the contrast between short and long vowels, focusing on the role of vowel duration. Forty participants (20 per dialect) completed a forced-choice identification task using synthesized minimal pairs with systematically varied vowel durations. Mixed-effects logistic regression models were used to analyze how duration and dialect influenced responses. Duration was a str…
Arabic (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Language Development and Disorders (2 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (2 works)