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Review
. 2019 Aug;48(4):785-795.
doi: 10.1007/s10936-019-09631-4.

The Role of Short Vowels in Reading Arabic: A Critical Literature Review

Salim Abu-Rabia  1
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The Role of Short Vowels in Reading Arabic: A Critical Literature Review

Salim Abu-Rabia. J Psycholinguist Res. 2019 Aug.

Abstract

The purpose of the present review is to examine the studies that tested the role of short vowels in reading Arabic. Most of the studies are reviewed in this paper and two contradicted data are presented: data that support positive contribution of short vowels in reading Arabic, and the other data that reject the assumption that short vowels contribute to the quality of reading, and suggest that these short vowels do not add any positive contribution and maybe the opposite; short vowels hinder reading in Arabic orthography. The results are criticized indicating some methodological problems and suggestions for further studies are presented.

Keywords: Arabic orthography; Reading and short vowels; Semitic languages; Short vowels.

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