Yousef Al-Rojaie

Biographic Data

ID6560161
NAMEYousef Al-Rojaie
GIVEN NAMESYousef
FAMILY NAMEAl-Rojaie
SIGNATUREAL-ROJAIE Y
AFFILIATIONSQassim University
ORCID0000-0003-1690-7646
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • The Effects of Age and Gender on the Perceptions of Linguistic Variation in the Qassimi Arabic Dialect

    Open AccessYousef Al-Rojaie, Al-Rojaie Al-Rojaie et al.ARTICLEDialectologia2021

    This article examines the effects of age and gender on perceptions that speakers of Qassimi Arabic, a variety of Najdi Arabic spoken in central Saudi Arabia, have of the placement and extent of dialect areas marked on hand-drawn maps representing variation within their own dialect. Analysis of composite maps of respondents' perceptions using a GIS mapping program (ArcGIS) reveals that both age and gender have an effect on respondents' perceptions…

  • Regional dialect leveling in Najdi Arabic

    Open AccessYousef Al-RojaieARTICLELanguage Variation and Change2013Cited by: 4References: 2

    This study investigates the effect of linguistic and social factors (age, gender, and level of education) on the patterns of variation in the affrication of [ ] for [k] in the stem and suffix in the informal speech of 72 speakers of Qaṣīmī, a local dialect of Najdi Arabic, spoken in the Qaṣīm province in central Saudi Arabia. Findings indicate that affrication is significantly favored in the phonological context of front vowels, particularly the …