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Processing Semitic Scripts: Reading and Writing in Arabic and Hebrew

A tale of one letter: Morphological processing in early Arabic spelling

Elinor Saiegh-HaddadEnglish Department (Linguistics Division), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, IsraelCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 169-188 | Published online: 29 Nov 2013

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Elinor Saiegh-Haddad. (2023) Embracing diglossia in early literacy education in Arabic: A pilot intervention study with kindergarten children. Oxford Review of Education 49:1, pages 48-68.
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Elsayed E. A. Hassanein, Evelyn S. Johnson, Yousef M. Alshaboul, Sayed R. Ibrahim & Ahmed M. Megreya. (2022) Examining Factors That Predict Arabic Word Reading in First and Second Graders. Reading & Writing Quarterly 38:1, pages 51-66.
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Ibrahim A. Asadi, Raphiq Ibrahim & Asaid Khateb. (2017) What contributes to spelling in Arabic? A cross-sectional study from first to sixth grade. Writing Systems Research 9:1, pages 60-81.
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Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Rachel Schiff. (2016) The Impact of Diglossia on Voweled and Unvoweled Word Reading in Arabic: A Developmental Study From Childhood to Adolescence. Scientific Studies of Reading 20:4, pages 311-324.
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Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad & Mark Leikin. (2016) The Lexical Status of the Root in Processing Morphologically Complex Words in Arabic. Scientific Studies of Reading 20:4, pages 296-310.
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Abeer Asli-Badarneh, Kathleen Hipfner-Boucher, Xi Chen Bumgardner, Redab AlJanaideh & Elinor Saiegh Haddad. (2022) Narrative microstructure and macrostructure skills in Arabic diglossia: The case of Arab immigrant children in Canada. International Journal of Bilingualism 27:3, pages 349-373.
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Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad & Ravit Cohen-Mimran. (2023) On the role of morphology in early spelling in Hebrew and Arabic. Morphology.
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Jasmeen Mansour-Adwan, Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad, Ravit Cohen-Mimran & Asaid Khateb. (2023) Reading in kindergarten Arabic-speaking children with low linguistic skills: A longitudinal study. Applied Psycholinguistics, pages 1-27.
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Nancy Joubran-Awadie & Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad. (2023) Morphological distance between spoken Palestinian dialect and standard Arabic and its implications for reading acquisition. First Language 43:2, pages 200-230.
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Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad. (2022) The role of verbal patterns in Arabic reading acquisition: insights from cross-modal priming. Reading and Writing 36:3, pages 649-672.
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Iyad Issa. (2022) Morphological Complexity in Arabic Spelling and Its Implication for Cognitive Processing. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 52:1, pages 331-357.
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Asma Amin & Alexandra Gottardo. (2022) The Simple View of Reading: Language-specific and contextual characteristics related to Arabic speakers in Saudi Arabia and Canada. Learning and Individual Differences 100, pages 102231.
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Afnan Khoury-Metanis & Asaid Khateb. (2022) Exploring the writing-reading connection among Arabic-speaking kindergarten children: the role of fine motor skills and orthographic knowledge. Reading and Writing 35:7, pages 1525-1547.
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Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum & Elinor Saiegh-Haddad. (2020) The contribution of morphological awareness to reading comprehension in Arabic-speaking second graders. Reading and Writing 33:10, pages 2413-2436.
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Alexandra Gottardo, Norah Amin, Asma Amin, Redab Al-Janaideh, Xi Chen & Johanne Paradis. (2020) Word reading in English and Arabic in children who are Syrian refugees. Applied Psycholinguistics 41:6, pages 1305-1328.
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Carole El Akiki & Alain Content. (2020) Early Sensitivity to Morphology in Beginning Readers of Arabic. Frontiers in Psychology 11.
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Rana Yassin, David L. Share & Yasmin Shalhoub-Awwad. (2020) Learning to Spell in Arabic: The Impact of Script-Specific Visual-Orthographic Features. Frontiers in Psychology 11.
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Amalia Bar-On & Victor Kuperman. (2018) Spelling errors respect morphology: a corpus study of Hebrew orthography. Reading and Writing 32:5, pages 1107-1128.
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Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Arige Elouty. (2018) Inflectional and derivational morphological awareness in Arabic-speaking High versus Low EFL literacy students. Written Language & Literacy Written Language and Literacy 21:2, pages 147-168.
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Elinor SAIEGH-HADDAD & Lina HAJ. (2018) Does phonological distance impact quality of phonological representations? Evidence from Arabic diglossia. Journal of Child Language 45:6, pages 1377-1399.
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AMALIA BAR-ON, YASMIN SHALHOUB-AWWAD & REEM IBRAHEEM TUMA-BASILA. (2018) Contribution of phonological and morphological information in reading Arabic: A developmental perspective. Applied Psycholinguistics 39:6, pages 1253-1277.
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Elinor Saiegh-Haddad. (2017) MAWRID: A Model of Arabic Word Reading in Development. Journal of Learning Disabilities 51:5, pages 454-462.
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Rachel Schiff & Elinor Saiegh-Haddad. (2018) Development and Relationships Between Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness and Word Reading in Spoken and Standard Arabic. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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Ibrahim A. Asadi, Asaid Khateb & Michal Shany. (2017) How simple is reading in Arabic? A cross-sectional investigation of reading comprehension from first to sixth grade. Journal of Research in Reading 40, pages S1-S22.
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Elinor Saiegh-Haddad & Ola Ghawi-Dakwar. (2017) Impact of Diglossia on Word and Non-word Repetition among Language Impaired and Typically Developing Arabic Native Speaking Children. Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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