Introduction
Experimental approaches to Arabic linguistics
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Experimental Arabic linguistics
- 2.1Experimental phonetics
- 2.2Psycholinguistic studies
- 2.3Eye-tracking studies
- 2.4Neurophysiological studies
- 2.5Typical and atypical language development
- 3.Papers in this volume
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