Bassil Mohammad Mashaqba
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bassil Mohammad Mashaqba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bassil Mohammad |
| FAMILY NAME | Mashaqba |
| SIGNATURE | MASHAQBA B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hashemite University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0835-0075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Acquisition of Arabic Guttural Consonants in Jordanian Arabic-English Bilingual Preschoolers
Aim: This study examines the early phonological acquisition of six Arabic guttural consonants (/χ/, /ʁ/, /ħ/, /ʕ/, /ʔ/, and /h/) in Jordanian Arabic-English (JAE) bilingual preschoolers. It investigates whether growing up in English-dominant environments affects the acquisition of these sounds, given that most gutturals are absent in English. Participants: Eighty typically developing children aged 2–6 years participated in this study: 40 JAE bili…
Language, religion and society in intercultural contexts: A discourse-pragmatic study of persuasion strategies in Friday sermons at Sheikh Zayed Grand mosque
This study investigates the linguistic, rhetorical, pragmatic, and paralinguistic strategies of persuasion in Friday sermons at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (SZGM), with particular attention to their intercultural functions for a multilingual and multinational audience. Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough’s three-dimensional model), Aristotle’s modes of persuasion, and Searle’s speech act theory, the study analyzes a corpus of ser…
Effects of Gender and Age on Voice Onset Time in Rural Jordanian Arabic
This study reports the effects of gender and age on the production of Voice Onset Time (VOT) of stop consonants in Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA). Participants of the study were divided into four age groups, namely children, preadolescents, adolescents, and adults, and were equally stratified according to their gender. They were asked to produce a series of Arabic words beginning with one of the six stop consonants: voiceless /tʕ/, /t/, /k/ and voi…
Voice onset time in the Emirati Arabic dialect
Voice Onset Time (VOT) is an essential acoustic parameter that phoneticians use to distinguish between voiced and voiceless stop consonants. This parameter is generally overlooked in Arabic dialects and The Emirati Arabic Dialects (EAD). This study explores the voicing contrast of stop consonants by measuring voice onset time as produced by EAD speakers. This research is based on word-list data comprising 36 words uttered by 16 native speakers (e…
Persuasion strategies in the prophetic Hadith of tolerance: A cognitive linguistic perspective
This study examines the persuasion strategies in the Prophetic Hadiths (PHs) on tolerance to identify the rhetorical and linguistic features used to make these Hadiths powerful. The study applied the cognitive and psychological Theory of Reasoned Action, along with Aristotle’s model of persuasion, to explore how language influences audience perceptions in the PHs. Three aspects shaping the persuasion process were observed: attraction (using appea…
Phonological whole-word measures in bilingual Arabic-English speaking children
Refusal Strategies by Young Jordanian Speakers in Arabic and English
This study aims to investigate refusal strategies used among Jordanian Arabic speakers and EFL learners of English in Jordan. Two Discourse Completion Tests (DCT), containing scenarios of refusal, were completed by 43 Jordanian Arabic speakers along with 37 EFL learners of English in Jordan. Data analysis reveals three main refusal categories used in the data: direct, indirect and adjuncts to refusals. Jordanian Arabic speakers used 7% direct ref…
The syntax of non-canonical coordination in Jordanian Arabic: An experimental investigation
Non-canonical coordination occurs when non-constituents are conjoined. Two major types of non-canonical coordination are gapping and non-constituent coordination (NCC). Non-canonical coordination has received interest for its relevance to core issues in syntax, such as constituency and phrase structure. The aim of this article is twofold. First, it provides empirical evidence for non-canonical coordination from Jordanian Arabic (JA) via an experi…
Mean length of utterance of Jordanian Arabic-speaking children with language impairment
This study serves as an explanatory investigation of the validity of mean length of utterance (MLU) to distinguish children with typical development from those with language impairment. Data were taken from 15 typically developing children and 11 children with language impairment, all aged 4-9 years old. A minimum of 100 utterances were taken from each participant which were then analyzed using Brown’s rules of counting MLU-w with some adaptation…
On sociolinguistic aspects of hypocoristics in the Jordanian context
Časopis Acta onomastica je jediné české recenzované vědecké periodikum zabývající se problematikou vlastních jmen. Byl založen v roce 1960 jako Zpravodaj Místopisné komise ČSAV (později vycházel pod názvem Onomastický zpravodaj). Má rozsáhlou síť domácích i zahraničních přispěvatelů, otiskuje příspěvky především v češtině, slovenštině, polštině, ruštině, němčině a angličtině. Původní stati, recenze a zprávy v něm publikované se týkají všech oblas…
Authorship analysis of three Jordanian columnists: Is there a linguistic fingerprint
This forensic linguistic study aims to explore some style markers of three prominent Jordanian columnists. The study examined five semantic, three syntactic, and five structural style features in 75 genre-controlled Arabic newspaper articles. In this investigation, we followed stylistic (qualitative) and stylometric (quantitative) approaches to determine the linguistic style of the three targeted authors and their writing fingerprints. Findings r…
Negative scope ambiguity in serial verb constructions in Jordanian Arabic: An experimental investigation
This article provides a systematic investigation of serial verb constructions in Jordanian Arabic, reporting the results of two experiments. Experiment 1 (n = 86) involves an acceptability judgment task where participants rated serialized and non-serialized verbs on a 5-point Likert scale. The results of this experiment indicate that speakers of Jordanian Arabic find the serialized verbs to be as attested as their non-serialized counterparts. Exp…
The use of discourse markers in argumentative compositions by Jordanian EFL learners
The aim of the present study is to investigate the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the argumentative compositions written by EFL learners at two academic stages (sophomores and seniors) majoring in English at the Hashemite University, Jordan. The significance of this study springs from its focus on the use of DMs in Jordanian EFL learners’ argumentative writings. Employing an integrated research method of qualitative and quantitative analysis, …
Acoustics of long vowels in Arabic-speaking children with hearing impairments
The present study investigates formant frequencies and vowel space area in Jordanian hearing-impaired individuals who received cochlear implants. To achieve this task, they were compared with their hearing aids and normal-hearing peers. The study involved 60 participants aged between 7 and 11 years, consisting of 20 cochlear implant (CI) users, 20 hearing aid (HA) users, and 20 normal-hearing (NH) children. All participants were native speakers o…
Broken Plural in Jordanian Arabic: Constraint-Based Evidence From Loanwords Adaptation
Based on a critical review of previous work, this paper shows that prosodic phonology models do not account for all broken plurals in Arabic especially in the case of singular forms comprising two or more different plurals, and in the dialectal variations of selecting the optimal plural pattern.As evidenced in loanword adaptation in Bedouin Jordanian Arabic, this paper proposes a well-defined set of prosodically-based constraints that account for…
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers
This article compares risk tolerance of native Arabic speakers under two language contexts: their first language (L1 Arabic) and their foreign language (L2 English). We aim to evaluate whether thinking in a foreign language actually reduces the negative effects of cognitive biases, such as loss aversion and mental accounting, on financial decision-making. Toward this aim, we conducted two experiments in which the risk tolerance levels of 144 part…
Inadequate Top-Down Information and Vowel Judgement
The current study evaluates the accountability of Native Listeners (NLs). The study recruited speakers from a mixture of Arabic dialects and accents as one group and LAFL as another group where both groups spoke actual Arabic words with long and short vowels in contrast. A main consequence of choosing the present experimental manipulation is the outcome that NLs of Arabic had increasingly slow right recognitions in the follow-on test. The conclus…
Production of pragmatic routines by Algerian EFL learners: The effect of corpus-based instruction
The study investigates the effect of corpus-based L2 pragmatics instruction on the production of pragmatic routines by Algerian EFL learners. The sample consisted of 60 Algerian EFL learners from the University of Mohammed e-Seddik Ben Yahia, divided equally into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received extensive instructional intervention on the meaning and functions of pragmatic routines, while the control grou…
Subtitling sensitive Arabic language for English audiences: A case study of Netflix’s Jinn and Al-Rawabi shows
The current study investigates the subtitling strategies of sensitive language in Netflix’s Jinn and Al-Rawabi shows from Arabic into English. A corpus of Arabic sex-related expressions from the two shows subtitled into English are extracted. The typology of the sex-related examples is classified into four groups, namely verbal innuendo, clothing revealment, slang and vulgar words, and body part-related references. The study findings show that di…
A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of Jordanians Facebook status updates during Covid-19
This study investigates the communicative functions of status updates on Facebook during COVID-19. For this purpose, a corpus of 500 status updates was collected from 100 Facebook users for 90 consecutive days. Subsequently, the data were characterized into five speech acts drawing heavily on Searle's speech act framework, prominent among which are expressives and assertives. Data analysis revealed that status updates could be considered a substa…
Acquisition of stress in the speech of Ammani Arabic-speaking children
The aim of this research is to examine the developmental stages of acquiring stress in the speech of Ammani Arabic-speaking children (henceforth AASC). Elicited and spontaneous speech productions of 48 typically developing children were transcribed and coded with the primary stress. Words were also analyzed according to their metrical shapes. The children were divided into four age groups: (1; 0–1; 6), (1; 7–2; 0), (2; 1–2; 6), and (2; 7–3; 0). D…
The impact of Covid-19 and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners’ vocabulary repertoire
COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis worldwide posing many linguistic challenges including understanding and learning new related terminology. This study explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition, particularly in Jordan. A triangulated approach was employed for collecting data including interviews, tests and a questionnaire distributed to 100 EFL learners a…
Mental Representation of Multiple Default Plurals: Evidence from the Adaptation of English Loanwords in Arabic
The present work argues for the existence of multiple default regularities of plural formation in Arabic. As evidenced in the corpus of loanword adaptation in Jordanian Arabic, this study calls for a reassessment of the treatment of idiosyncratic plural forms in the mental lexicon. This investigation is in line with the dual mechanism theory where both memory and rule are active, but with more reliance on the default rule (feminine sound plural –…
Hypocoristics in the Ammani-Jordanian context: A Construction Morphology perspective
The current study explores the patterns of hypocoristics in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic in view of Construction Morphology. The most common hypocoristic patterns are addressed with reference to the social factors (gender and age) that may contribute to the templates and functions of the hypocoristic structure. This paper argues that Ammani-Jordanian Arabic speakers produce various hypocoristic patterns to signify a variety of functions. A questionnai…
Normativity and Variation in the Address Terms System Practiced among the Jordanian Youth Community
This study investigates the key forms of address used amongst Jordanian university students, the impact of gender on using these forms and what accounts for the variation in their address system. By addressing the issue of normativity and heterogeneity in the use of address terms, in different social settings, the study enriches the understanding of the internal variation of the address term system. Data collected through questionnaires and semi-…
Normativity and Variation in the Address Terms System Practiced among the Jordanian Youth Community
This study investigates the key forms of address used amongst Jordanian university students, the impact of gender on using these forms and what accounts for the variation in their address system. By addressing the issue of normativity and heterogeneity in the use of address terms, in different social settings, the study enriches the understanding of the internal variation of the address term system. Data collected through questionnaires and semi-…
Withdrawn: Monophthongization in Bedouin Jordanian Arabic: A unified analysis of Metrical model and Optimality theory
Tentative Language in Mixed-Gender Conversations of Jordanians: The Influence of Gender and Social Status
Purpose of Study: This paper evaluated the validity of self-categorization theory (Turner, 1987; Turner & Reynolds, 2011) in predicting the relationship between tentative language use and the prominent power of the speaker’s gender and social status in Jordanian society. Methodology: Eighteen adult Jordanian dyads participated in dyadic conversations. Each dyad consisted of high-status females and low-status males. Before recording their mixed-ge…
Effects of Listeners' Expectations of Speakers' Nativeness: Identification of Phonemic Vowel Length
Purpose of the study: This study is to describe an experiment in which native Arabic listeners identified phonemic vowels in Arabic words. Native Arabic speakers from a variety of dialects and non-native Arabic speakers spoke the words. The main objective of the present study is to understand the neglected role of the native listeners in making communication successful or impeded when native listeners lack adequate information about the non-nativ…
Stress production by Cebuano learners of Arabic: A metrical analysis
Stress is one of the most neglected components of the Arabic language in classrooms (Lin, 2018; Ryding, 2013).This study is devoted to analyzing stress production in Arabic as produced by Cebuano learners in order to highlight the challenges so that teachers can address them in the best way. The data have been examined within the metrical theory of word stress elaborated in Hayes (1995). A sample of 100 words has been considered, spoken by six no…
Acquisition of broken plural patterns by Jordanian children
This study examines the acquisition of broken plural (BP) patterns generated by child speakers of Jordanian Arabic (JA). Data were collected from 20 Jordanian children via an experimental production test. Children were given pictures of a set of singular entities depicting nouns and pictures containing their plural counterparts, and they were asked to say the names of the items in the pictures in an attempt to provide their corresponding plural f…
Geminate Acquisition and Representation by Ammani Arabic-Speaking Children
This study investigates the acquisition and representation of geminate plosives and geminate liquids in the speech of Ammani Arabic (AA) children aged from 2;6 (year; month) to 5 years, at six months intervals. Although gemination is perceived properly by AA children at an early stage, in which they produce words including geminates significantly longer than words with singletons, the acoustic measurements indicate that the children’s phonetic/ac…
On Morphology-Phonology Interface: Insights From Diminutives in Jordanian Arabic
This study explores the morphology-phonology interface to be found in the formation of diminutives in Jordanian Arabic (JA). As evident in a corpus of diminutives in Bedouin and urban varieties, the results demonstrate that JA mainly depends on a non-concatenative (discontinuous) patterning of diminutive structures. Intriguingly, diminutives in JA not only are derived from nouns and adjectives, but also from perfective verbs. The diminutive verb …
Acquisition of emphatic consonants by Ammani Arabic-speaking children
This article investigates the production of the emphatic consonants /ṭ, ḍ, ṣ/ by typically developing Jordanian children. Sixty typically developing monolingual Ammani Arabic-speaking children (30 boys and 30 girls) with ages ranging from 2 to 7;11 years were recruited in a production experiment. In the experiment, they were asked to produce 18 minimal pair words with emphatic consonants and their corresponding plain coronals in all word position…
Production of gutturals by non-native speakers of Arabic
This paper investigates the production of Arabic gutturals by native (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs) of Arabic. A total of 40 participants, 20 NSs and 20 NNSs were recruited. 240 tokens were collected using two major methods: free speech and nonsense word testing. Using PRAAT software (version 6.1.01), the tokens were analyzed acoustically to measure F1 and F2 and to signal the (non)significance of the difference between the target groups an…
Semantic scope in Q-float constructions: An experimental investigation
The use of discourse markers in argumentative compositions by Jordanian EFL learners
The aim of the present study is to investigate the use of discourse markers (DMs) in the argumentative compositions written by EFL learners at two academic stages (sophomores and seniors) majoring in English at the Hashemite University, Jordan. The significance of this study springs from its focus on the use of DMs in Jordanian EFL learners’ argumentative writings. Employing an integrated research method of qualitative and quantitative analysis, …
Acoustics of long vowels in Arabic-speaking children with hearing impairments
The present study investigates formant frequencies and vowel space area in Jordanian hearing-impaired individuals who received cochlear implants. To achieve this task, they were compared with their hearing aids and normal-hearing peers. The study involved 60 participants aged between 7 and 11 years, consisting of 20 cochlear implant (CI) users, 20 hearing aid (HA) users, and 20 normal-hearing (NH) children. All participants were native speakers o…
Broken Plural in Jordanian Arabic: Constraint-Based Evidence From Loanwords Adaptation
Based on a critical review of previous work, this paper shows that prosodic phonology models do not account for all broken plurals in Arabic especially in the case of singular forms comprising two or more different plurals, and in the dialectal variations of selecting the optimal plural pattern.As evidenced in loanword adaptation in Bedouin Jordanian Arabic, this paper proposes a well-defined set of prosodically-based constraints that account for…
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers
This article compares risk tolerance of native Arabic speakers under two language contexts: their first language (L1 Arabic) and their foreign language (L2 English). We aim to evaluate whether thinking in a foreign language actually reduces the negative effects of cognitive biases, such as loss aversion and mental accounting, on financial decision-making. Toward this aim, we conducted two experiments in which the risk tolerance levels of 144 part…
Inadequate Top-Down Information and Vowel Judgement
The current study evaluates the accountability of Native Listeners (NLs). The study recruited speakers from a mixture of Arabic dialects and accents as one group and LAFL as another group where both groups spoke actual Arabic words with long and short vowels in contrast. A main consequence of choosing the present experimental manipulation is the outcome that NLs of Arabic had increasingly slow right recognitions in the follow-on test. The conclus…
Production of pragmatic routines by Algerian EFL learners: The effect of corpus-based instruction
The study investigates the effect of corpus-based L2 pragmatics instruction on the production of pragmatic routines by Algerian EFL learners. The sample consisted of 60 Algerian EFL learners from the University of Mohammed e-Seddik Ben Yahia, divided equally into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received extensive instructional intervention on the meaning and functions of pragmatic routines, while the control grou…
Subtitling sensitive Arabic language for English audiences: A case study of Netflix’s Jinn and Al-Rawabi shows
The current study investigates the subtitling strategies of sensitive language in Netflix’s Jinn and Al-Rawabi shows from Arabic into English. A corpus of Arabic sex-related expressions from the two shows subtitled into English are extracted. The typology of the sex-related examples is classified into four groups, namely verbal innuendo, clothing revealment, slang and vulgar words, and body part-related references. The study findings show that di…
A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of Jordanians Facebook status updates during Covid-19
This study investigates the communicative functions of status updates on Facebook during COVID-19. For this purpose, a corpus of 500 status updates was collected from 100 Facebook users for 90 consecutive days. Subsequently, the data were characterized into five speech acts drawing heavily on Searle's speech act framework, prominent among which are expressives and assertives. Data analysis revealed that status updates could be considered a substa…
Acquisition of stress in the speech of Ammani Arabic-speaking children
The aim of this research is to examine the developmental stages of acquiring stress in the speech of Ammani Arabic-speaking children (henceforth AASC). Elicited and spontaneous speech productions of 48 typically developing children were transcribed and coded with the primary stress. Words were also analyzed according to their metrical shapes. The children were divided into four age groups: (1; 0–1; 6), (1; 7–2; 0), (2; 1–2; 6), and (2; 7–3; 0). D…
The impact of Covid-19 and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners’ vocabulary repertoire
COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis worldwide posing many linguistic challenges including understanding and learning new related terminology. This study explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition, particularly in Jordan. A triangulated approach was employed for collecting data including interviews, tests and a questionnaire distributed to 100 EFL learners a…
Mental Representation of Multiple Default Plurals: Evidence from the Adaptation of English Loanwords in Arabic
The present work argues for the existence of multiple default regularities of plural formation in Arabic. As evidenced in the corpus of loanword adaptation in Jordanian Arabic, this study calls for a reassessment of the treatment of idiosyncratic plural forms in the mental lexicon. This investigation is in line with the dual mechanism theory where both memory and rule are active, but with more reliance on the default rule (feminine sound plural –…
Hypocoristics in the Ammani-Jordanian context: A Construction Morphology perspective
The current study explores the patterns of hypocoristics in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic in view of Construction Morphology. The most common hypocoristic patterns are addressed with reference to the social factors (gender and age) that may contribute to the templates and functions of the hypocoristic structure. This paper argues that Ammani-Jordanian Arabic speakers produce various hypocoristic patterns to signify a variety of functions. A questionnai…
Normativity and Variation in the Address Terms System Practiced among the Jordanian Youth Community
This study investigates the key forms of address used amongst Jordanian university students, the impact of gender on using these forms and what accounts for the variation in their address system. By addressing the issue of normativity and heterogeneity in the use of address terms, in different social settings, the study enriches the understanding of the internal variation of the address term system. Data collected through questionnaires and semi-…
Refusal Strategies by Young Jordanian Speakers in Arabic and English
This study aims to investigate refusal strategies used among Jordanian Arabic speakers and EFL learners of English in Jordan. Two Discourse Completion Tests (DCT), containing scenarios of refusal, were completed by 43 Jordanian Arabic speakers along with 37 EFL learners of English in Jordan. Data analysis reveals three main refusal categories used in the data: direct, indirect and adjuncts to refusals. Jordanian Arabic speakers used 7% direct ref…
The syntax of non-canonical coordination in Jordanian Arabic: An experimental investigation
Non-canonical coordination occurs when non-constituents are conjoined. Two major types of non-canonical coordination are gapping and non-constituent coordination (NCC). Non-canonical coordination has received interest for its relevance to core issues in syntax, such as constituency and phrase structure. The aim of this article is twofold. First, it provides empirical evidence for non-canonical coordination from Jordanian Arabic (JA) via an experi…
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