Recent language models have shown impressive multilingual performance, even when not
explicitly trained for it. Despite this, there are concerns about the quality of their outputs …

Studies of the mutual intelligibility of related languages and dialects have demonstrated that
comprehension can be predicted by linguistic factors such as phonological and lexical …

When two persons communicate through spoken language, thoughts that enter into the mind
of the speaker first have to be expressed in terms of the vocabulary and grammatical …

This paper presents a preliminary review of the Yallah al-Quds (YAQ) virtual language and
cultural exchange program, a novel online language program that offers multilingual and …

Multilingualism is part of daily life for a large part of the world's population (see Chapters 2
through 5, this volume). For many people, multilingualism causes a communicative …

The accurate identification of likely segmental pronunciation errors produced by nonnative
speakers of English is a longstanding goal in pronunciation teaching. Most lists of …

Tunisian Arabic (ISO 693-3: aeb) is a distinct variety native to Tunisia, derived from Arabic
and enriched by various historical influences. This research introduces the" Normalized …

Sociolinguistic variation is often ignored in standard language textbooks (Brown, 2011).
Arabic, a diglossic language, exhibits considerable variation with a standardized formal …

This study finds a unique trend in the United States, where Arabic is one of the heritage
languages of the superpower. Starting from the birth of migrants, Arabic has been more …

Against the usual assumption that Arabic grammatical operators based on reflexes of šay
derive from the Arabic word for'thing'šayʔ, it is argued here that indefinite quantifiers and …