Mohammed Nour Abu Guba
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1223948 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mohammed Nour Abu Guba |
| PRENOMES | Mohammed Nour Abu |
| SOBRENOME | Guba |
| ASSINATURA | GUBA M N A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5007-6439 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Acquisition of stress assignment phonology by Levantine Arabic Learners of English
This study examines how Levantine Arabic learners acquire English lexical stress—a suprasegmental feature closely tied to intelligibility, comprehensibility, and perceived accentedness. Employing an innovative methodology based on the production of nonsense words, the research compares stress assignment patterns across learners of varying proficiency levels and native speakers of English. Data were elicited through 28 nonsense items representing …
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…
The passive voice in the Holy Quran
The passive voice represents a marked syntactic construction in language, and its usage requires a systematic analysis to fully comprehend its complexities. The role of the passive voice in the Holy Quran has not been adequately explored in previous studies. This research aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all passive verbs found in the Holy Quran. We identified 1107 passive verbs using the categorization provided by the Quranic Corpus. …
Attitudes toward code-switching among bilingual Jordanians
This study employs a quantitative analytical descriptive approach to explore the attitudes of two Jordanian communities toward code-switching (CS). The first community lives in the United States (a migrant community), while the second community resides in Jordan (a native community). Data were collected using an online questionnaire and the attitudes of these two communities were compared with respect to their sense of identity, religion, communi…
Neologisms in Mass Media on Selected CNN TV Programs during Coronavirus Epidemic
This study aimed to investigate the neologisms used on selected CNN TV programs during the coronavirus epidemic. Adopting a descriptive method in analyzing the corpus of the study, we collected (286) neologisms. We analyzed them according to the types of word classes, their topics, and the morphological processes involved in forming these neologisms. The study revealed that 88 percent of the neologisms were nouns and the most prevalent morphologi…
Deictic demonstrative variation in Jordanian Arabic
Broken Plural in Jordanian Arabic
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…
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…
Mental Representation of Multiple Default Plurals
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 –…
A Comparative and Contrastive Study of Arabic and English Metonymic Expressions
This study explores Arabic and English metonymy’s literary, semantic, lexical, and aesthetic aspects. It investigates metonymy as a figure of speech and compares its types and functions in the two languages. The study confirms that metonymy is culture-bound – that is the meanings of metonymies derive from the socio-cultural values of societies and can’t be separated from the contexts in which they occur. The study stresses the significance of con…
Prosody Trumps Orthography in Second Language Phonology
Foreign Accented-Speech and Perceptions of Confidence and Intelligence
On Morphology-Phonology Interface
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 …
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…
Gender assignment in loanwords in Jordanian Arabic
This study examines gender assignment in 531 English loanwords in Jordanian Arabic. Results show that the most common gender in the corpus is the masculine and the most important factor that determines the gender of the adapted loanword is the phonological/phonetic form of the loanword while semantic factors play a minor role. Most importantly, the paper provides evidence that the masculine, which is also morphologically unmarked, is the default …
Gemination within English loanwords in Ammani Arabic
Adopting an Optimality-theoretic approach, this paper examines gemination in English loanwords in Ammani Arabic (AA). Data come from a corpus of 1200 loanwords as produced by 12 AA monolingual native speakers. Results show that gemination, which is not attested in the source input, is induced to satisfy AA structural constraints and to render the output better well-formed. Of particular interest, results show that the introduction of English loan…
Gemination within English loanwords in Ammani Arabic
Adopting an Optimality-theoretic approach, this paper examines gemination in English loanwords in Ammani Arabic (AA). Data come from a corpus of 1200 loanwords as produced by 12 AA monolingual native speakers. Results show that gemination, which is not attested in the source input, is induced to satisfy AA structural constraints and to render the output better well-formed. Of particular interest, results show that the introduction of English loan…
Foreign Accented-Speech and Perceptions of Confidence and Intelligence
Gender assignment in loanwords in Jordanian Arabic
This study examines gender assignment in 531 English loanwords in Jordanian Arabic. Results show that the most common gender in the corpus is the masculine and the most important factor that determines the gender of the adapted loanword is the phonological/phonetic form of the loanword while semantic factors play a minor role. Most importantly, the paper provides evidence that the masculine, which is also morphologically unmarked, is the default …
Gemination within English loanwords in Ammani Arabic
Adopting an Optimality-theoretic approach, this paper examines gemination in English loanwords in Ammani Arabic (AA). Data come from a corpus of 1200 loanwords as produced by 12 AA monolingual native speakers. Results show that gemination, which is not attested in the source input, is induced to satisfy AA structural constraints and to render the output better well-formed. Of particular interest, results show that the introduction of English loan…
On Morphology-Phonology Interface
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 …
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…
Broken Plural in Jordanian Arabic
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…
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…
Mental Representation of Multiple Default Plurals
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 –…
A Comparative and Contrastive Study of Arabic and English Metonymic Expressions
This study explores Arabic and English metonymy’s literary, semantic, lexical, and aesthetic aspects. It investigates metonymy as a figure of speech and compares its types and functions in the two languages. The study confirms that metonymy is culture-bound – that is the meanings of metonymies derive from the socio-cultural values of societies and can’t be separated from the contexts in which they occur. The study stresses the significance of con…
Prosody Trumps Orthography in Second Language Phonology
Foreign Accented-Speech and Perceptions of Confidence and Intelligence
Attitudes toward code-switching among bilingual Jordanians
This study employs a quantitative analytical descriptive approach to explore the attitudes of two Jordanian communities toward code-switching (CS). The first community lives in the United States (a migrant community), while the second community resides in Jordan (a native community). Data were collected using an online questionnaire and the attitudes of these two communities were compared with respect to their sense of identity, religion, communi…
Neologisms in Mass Media on Selected CNN TV Programs during Coronavirus Epidemic
This study aimed to investigate the neologisms used on selected CNN TV programs during the coronavirus epidemic. Adopting a descriptive method in analyzing the corpus of the study, we collected (286) neologisms. We analyzed them according to the types of word classes, their topics, and the morphological processes involved in forming these neologisms. The study revealed that 88 percent of the neologisms were nouns and the most prevalent morphologi…
Deictic demonstrative variation in Jordanian Arabic
The passive voice in the Holy Quran
The passive voice represents a marked syntactic construction in language, and its usage requires a systematic analysis to fully comprehend its complexities. The role of the passive voice in the Holy Quran has not been adequately explored in previous studies. This research aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all passive verbs found in the Holy Quran. We identified 1107 passive verbs using the categorization provided by the Quranic Corpus. …
Acquisition of stress assignment phonology by Levantine Arabic Learners of English
This study examines how Levantine Arabic learners acquire English lexical stress—a suprasegmental feature closely tied to intelligibility, comprehensibility, and perceived accentedness. Employing an innovative methodology based on the production of nonsense words, the research compares stress assignment patterns across learners of varying proficiency levels and native speakers of English. Data were elicited through 28 nonsense items representing …
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…
Linguistics (13 obras) · Psychology (12 obras) · Arabic (10 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Phonology (5 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 obras) · Mathematics (4 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (3 obras)