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Al Khattab, Emran R. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
All languages change over time. English has undergone continuous change throughout its three major periods: Old English (roughly from 450 to 1100 AD), Middle English (from 1100 to 1500), and Modern English (from 1500 to the present). Sound is one of the most easily influenced parts of language to be subject to different changes. Sound change is…
Descriptors: Old English, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Phonology
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Salameh, Mohammad Yahya Bani; Abu-Melhim, Abdel-Rahman – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The aim of this paper is to explore the phonetic nature of vowels in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Although Arabic is a Semitic language, the speech sound system of Arabic is very comprehensive. Data used for this study were elicited from the standard speech of nine informants who are native speakers of Arabic. The researchers used themselves as…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Modern Languages, Phonetics, Vowels