Bilal Alsharif
Biographic Data
| ID | 8963769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bilal Alsharif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bilal |
| FAMILY NAME | Alsharif |
| SIGNATURE | ALSHARIF B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Emphasis spread in Arabic
This study examines emphasis spread (ES) in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA), focusing on the phonological and phonetic mechanisms that govern its direction and domain. Emphasis, realized through tongue root retraction, affects both consonants and vowels and can propagate bidirectionally within the phonological word. Using autosegmental phonology, feature geometry, and Optimality Theory (OT), this research identifies coronal emphatics (/tʕ, dʕ, sʕ, ð…
The Impact of AI-Assisted Tools on Enhancing the Quality of Legal Translation Outputs
This study seeks to examine the effects of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted tools (ChatGPT and DeepL) on the quality of legal translation outputs by Jordanian undergraduates. As legal translation necessitates a high degree of specificity, context, and accuracy in the utilization of terminology, the following research will explore whether AI can help students accomplish this requirement. To achieve the research objective, a case st…
A corpus-based study of English editorials
This study investigates the linguistic features of newspaper editorials written by Arab writers for the Jordan Times, Arab News, Al-Ahram, and Morocco World News. It compares them with editorials from The Guardian. The study employed a multidimensional analysis (MDA) approach to examine patterns in syntactic complexity and metadiscourse. This study analyzes a corpus of 1,500 English newspaper editorials authored by Arab writers for The Jordan Tim…
Estimating the location and degree of constriction and labial aperture in emphatics in Jordanian Arabic
Arabic dialects are often anecdotally described as existing on a continuum of guttural quality, driven by varying degrees of pharyngeal constriction. To empirically assess this, we collected phonetic data from two Jordanian dialects: rural and urban. We employ acoustic analysis and various metrics to quantify the upper and lower vocal tracts’ contribution to the production of emphatic sounds. Our analysis specifically aims to estimate the degree …
Online learning amidst crisis
In light of the challenges and crises the world is facing, the usage of technology has a significant impact on students’ perceptions and learning experiences. This study investigates the perceptions of Gazan university students toward online learning in the context of an ongoing crisis. Using a qualitative thematic analysis methodology, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with a random sample of fifteen graduate students (eight female…
A Dialectal Acoustic Comparison of Vowels in Jordanian Arabic
This study investigates the acoustic correlates of long and short vowel contrast for two dialects spoken in the northern part of Jordan. More specifically, it describes the vowels uttered in a connected speech by the Urban Speakers (referred to as 'Madani Dialect,' henceforth ‘MD’) and Rural Speakers (referred to as 'Fallaħ Dialect,' henceforth 'FD'). Three males and two females from each region uttered 40 words. The vowel inventory for both dial…
An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Superheavy Syllables in Urban Irbid Dialect
This study investigates the distribution of superheavy syllables in Urban Irbid dialect (UID), revealing their occurrence in both non-final and final word positions. We argue that word-final superheavy syllables are characterized by an extrametrical or weightless final consonant. This extrametricality is proposed as a mechanism to satisfy constraints against trimoraic syllables (*3μ) and final consonants bearing weight (*FINAL-μ-C), albeit at the…
A Comparative Study of AI-Powered Tools for Arabic-English and English-Arabic Translation
This study is a quantitative analysis that investigates and compares the quality level of Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems, and Large Language Models (LLMs) against each other and how well they can perform on translation tasks from English into Arabic and vice versa, in comparison to human translator. By utilizing a Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) and comparing seven translation platforms,…
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Online learning amidst crisis
In light of the challenges and crises the world is facing, the usage of technology has a significant impact on students’ perceptions and learning experiences. This study investigates the perceptions of Gazan university students toward online learning in the context of an ongoing crisis. Using a qualitative thematic analysis methodology, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with a random sample of fifteen graduate students (eight female…
A Dialectal Acoustic Comparison of Vowels in Jordanian Arabic
This study investigates the acoustic correlates of long and short vowel contrast for two dialects spoken in the northern part of Jordan. More specifically, it describes the vowels uttered in a connected speech by the Urban Speakers (referred to as 'Madani Dialect,' henceforth ‘MD’) and Rural Speakers (referred to as 'Fallaħ Dialect,' henceforth 'FD'). Three males and two females from each region uttered 40 words. The vowel inventory for both dial…
An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Superheavy Syllables in Urban Irbid Dialect
This study investigates the distribution of superheavy syllables in Urban Irbid dialect (UID), revealing their occurrence in both non-final and final word positions. We argue that word-final superheavy syllables are characterized by an extrametrical or weightless final consonant. This extrametricality is proposed as a mechanism to satisfy constraints against trimoraic syllables (*3μ) and final consonants bearing weight (*FINAL-μ-C), albeit at the…
A Comparative Study of AI-Powered Tools for Arabic-English and English-Arabic Translation
This study is a quantitative analysis that investigates and compares the quality level of Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems, and Large Language Models (LLMs) against each other and how well they can perform on translation tasks from English into Arabic and vice versa, in comparison to human translator. By utilizing a Bilingual Evaluation Understudy (BLEU) and comparing seven translation platforms,…
Emphasis spread in Arabic
This study examines emphasis spread (ES) in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA), focusing on the phonological and phonetic mechanisms that govern its direction and domain. Emphasis, realized through tongue root retraction, affects both consonants and vowels and can propagate bidirectionally within the phonological word. Using autosegmental phonology, feature geometry, and Optimality Theory (OT), this research identifies coronal emphatics (/tʕ, dʕ, sʕ, ð…
The Impact of AI-Assisted Tools on Enhancing the Quality of Legal Translation Outputs
This study seeks to examine the effects of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted tools (ChatGPT and DeepL) on the quality of legal translation outputs by Jordanian undergraduates. As legal translation necessitates a high degree of specificity, context, and accuracy in the utilization of terminology, the following research will explore whether AI can help students accomplish this requirement. To achieve the research objective, a case st…
A corpus-based study of English editorials
This study investigates the linguistic features of newspaper editorials written by Arab writers for the Jordan Times, Arab News, Al-Ahram, and Morocco World News. It compares them with editorials from The Guardian. The study employed a multidimensional analysis (MDA) approach to examine patterns in syntactic complexity and metadiscourse. This study analyzes a corpus of 1,500 English newspaper editorials authored by Arab writers for The Jordan Tim…
Estimating the location and degree of constriction and labial aperture in emphatics in Jordanian Arabic
Arabic dialects are often anecdotally described as existing on a continuum of guttural quality, driven by varying degrees of pharyngeal constriction. To empirically assess this, we collected phonetic data from two Jordanian dialects: rural and urban. We employ acoustic analysis and various metrics to quantify the upper and lower vocal tracts’ contribution to the production of emphatic sounds. Our analysis specifically aims to estimate the degree …
Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Arabic (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Optimality theory (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Vowel (2 works) · Acoustics (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (1 work) · Authorship Attribution and Profiling (1 work) · BLEU (1 work)