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AcknowledgementsVII
Introduction: Experimental approaches to Arabic linguistics1
I.Experimental phonetics
Articulatory and acoustic correlates of pharyngealization and
pharyngealization spread in cairene Arabic: A real-time magnetic resonance imaging study23
Affricate variation in Emirati Arabic: An exploratory study57
II.Eye-tracking
Eye movements in Arabic reading: A review of the current literature85
An eye-tracking study of phonological awareness in Emirati Arabic109
III.Typical and atypical language development
LATFA: An assessment tool for Emirati Arabic-speaking children125
Sentence repetition in children with autism spectrum disorder in Saudi
Arabia: An investigation of morphosyntactic abilities143
The relationship between word and nonword repetition and receptive and
expressive vocabulary skills in Gulf Arabic speaking children177
An exploratory longitudinal study of vocabulary development in
bilingually exposed children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the
United Arab Emirates209
Index247
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