Arts and Social Sciences Series

Qalqala and Phonetic Stress in the Holy Quran According to the Ancient and Modern Linguists: A Descriptive and Semantic Study (Selected Examples)

Marwan Rabaya — 2025-02-12

This study aims to deal with phonetic issues that have
a remarkable presence in phonetic studies and in Quranic sciences. These are issues that have been paid the attention of scholars and researchers, anciently and in modern times, and were the subject of controversy regarding their semantic function. Then there are those who denied them, and others who derived to them a new meaning and connotation that they convey,

‏Therefore, the importance of the study stems from revealing the presence of the phenomena of qalqalah and stress on audio clips, in the language and in the Holy Qur’an, and the extent of their contributions in highlighting the semantics and meaning of the noble verse. The study aimed to answer hypothetical questions, including: Does qalqalah play a functional role in the language and in the Holy Qur’an? Is the Arabic language a dialect language? Can we study the stress in the Holy Quran through a functional, phonological study? What is the position of ancient Arabic scholars as well as modern linguists regarding its meaning? The study revealed that the ancients were fully aware of stress and qalqalah, and that their failure to detail the two vocal phenomena does not negate their existence and the perception of their moral function. Modern studies have focused on research and scrutiny, and showed that their reasoning of qalqala and tone must come from connotations revealed by the Qur’anic context, and that their study has not received serious and real research.

Lexicon, Grammar and Knowledge Representation: Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach

Hamid Daghouj — 2025-02-12

The article aims at reviewing the assumption that cognition as a whole is based on our bodies contribution to our mental representations resting on sensory input. Such representation is at play, first through forms-meanings mapping, based on lexical and grammatical schematization. Second, the representation is activated by means of perceptual mechanisms an individual can get, or what is called the conceptual and perceptual systems that connect lexical and pragmatic meanings to access the required overall meaning. As long as the lexical meaning does not determine the entities referred to by words, but determines the conceptualization of relevant cognitive models, this leads us to assume that there is a difference between the pragmatically perceived knowledge and the lexical knowledge coded in linguistic items. The goal of the first is to use a word as a symbol to imagine an entity, whereas the second aims at repressing the properties an individual might imagine about the thing subject to representation. In accounting for these differences between lexical, grammatical and pragmatic aspects, we make use of Conceptual Semantics as a theoretical framework for discussing the contents of such a problem.

The article falls into three sections. In the first section, an account for the improvement of individuals' knowledge is provided. The second section pinpoints the functioning of grammatical rules and lexicon in achieving linguistic knowledge and its interaction with extra-linguistic data. The third section explains the nature of interface of grammar, lexicon and pragmatic aspects through the concept of coercion and its role in achieving linguistic knowledge and formulating realistic data in order to encode the world and communicate about it.

The System of Arabic Phonetics According to Arab Musicians Phonetic Reviews

Abdelaziz Baha — 2025-02-12

This research aims to study the vowel system of the Arabic language from the perspective of musicology, highlighting the depth, creativity, and openness of musical insight to the sound phenomenon, as it carries, alongside its linguistic communicative dimension, a musical aspect that allows sounds to perform musical functions in addition to their linguistic functions. In this study, we adopted a comparative analytical approach, analyzing the efforts of ancient and modern phonetic scholars and comparing them with the contributions of musicologists in their numerous works on the subject of the vowel system. Among the prominent results of the research, there was the indication of the leadership of musicologists in addressing the vocal system in general, and the vowel system in particular, starting from the causes of sound production, its transmission, and ending up with hearing and receiving sounds. We also highlighted their leadership in accurately defining Arabic vowels from a musical perspective. In addition, we uncovered the criteria adopted by musicians in classifying vowels, represented by the standard of blending, which ranges between mixing them individually and collectively, and the standard of the pleasure of the audible.

Linguistic Planning in Light of Artificial Intelligence Techniques Opportunities, Challenges and Future Prospects

Mohammad Odeh — 2025-02-12

The study aimed to establish guidelines for future linguistic planning that views the Arabic language and AI through applying, preserving, or limiting its role due to the increasing role of the AI in the linguistic field. The study explored AI’s history, and the present abilities and highlighted the main terms related to the language, the machine learning, as well as the opportunities and challenges AI involved in employing AI in serving the Arabic language. Using the descriptive analytical approach, and presenting examples of using AI then commenting on them, the study came up with a number of results and recommendations, the most important of which is the necessity to regulate laws that guarantee developing AI's use along with language, and the importance of improving it in handling the heritage language.

The Coherence of Intertextuality in Tayseer Al- Saboul's Divan of "Desert Sorrows": Interdisciplinary Study in Discourse Analysis

Mohammad Aldamen — 2025-02-12

This is an analytical applied study, including a proposal to analyze the coherence of the notable intertextual models embedded in the selected anthology. The study demonstrated the relationship between intertextuality and coherence, indicating that the analysis of the former confirms the achievement of the latter based on the importance of the addressee's interpretation for those models according to his/her competencies, aiming to achieve coherence. Additionally, in its practical aspect, the study focused on analyzing the coherence of each intertextual model individually, by analyzing its type, as well as its horizontal coherence within the poem, and vertical coherence, by elucidating its coherence emanating from the overarching structure of the anthology, which focuses on the poet's various sorrows and their deepening. Finally, the study highlighted, at the end of each model, the extent of coherence between intertextuality and the associated discourse, which is novel in the few existing studies of intertextual coherence in the Arabic library.

The Phonetic Supposition in the Diacritics and Structure

Zayd Al-Qaralleh — 2025-02-12

The phonetic supposition refers to assuming the existence of sound, incorporating it as a linguistic function even though it is imaginary and has no actual existence, or assigning sound a function that contradicts its phonetic reality, or the contradiction between the phonetic assumption and the grammatical and morphological functions. In this study, the researcher examines the phonetic supposition in diacritics and structure, observing the phonetic assumption in estimated movements and in the problem of grammatical analysis by letters, especially the analysis by vowel sounds. How can these sounds be both grammatical letters and diacritical marks at the same time? And how can movement be estimated on a deleted letter "alif"? Thus, we assume the existence of a grammatical letter as well as a diacritical mark that do not actually exist. The conclusion of this study is that it examines the extent of integration and disintegration between the phonetic and grammatical levels, and demonstrates the arbitrary phonetic assumption in the estimated grammatical analysis in diacritics and structure. It advocates theoretical application.

The Acquisition of Arabic Syllabic Structure in the Language of Kindergarten Children

Said Abu Khader — 2025-02-12

This study aims to explore the peculiarity of children’s acquisition of Arabic syllabic structure in the late linguistic imitation stage. The study does this through extracting the syllabic structures, identifying their distribution and formation, clarifying the phonological processes that are utilized in their production, and examining three particular variables that may influence these processes in their formation. These are diglossia, age, and gender. The study used the descriptive experimental approach in analyzing the apraxia of speech, as well as the data on syllable theory in the phonological level. In collecting its data, the study used the qulatative purposeful approach by selecting a sample of kindergarten children that included 21 children of regular learning capabilities. Of the sample, 8 were male and 13 were female. Their ages ranged from (4) to (5) years, enrolled in Kg1 and Kg2 at Azad Model Kindergarten in Irbid. A phonological tool was deliberately designed to motivate the children by imitating, having dialogues, recording and analyzing every child's vocal performance, considering the standardized adult’s Arabic speech as the criteria. The novelty of this study lies in its contributions to acknowledge the syllabic structure of children and its formation for scientific theoretical, and functional purposes.

The study concluded that the participant’s productions reveal a completion of syllable forms, a tendency to reduce the number of syllables in words, difference of the transposition and the distribution of syllables from standard Arabic, relying on deletion as a substantial phonological process in formation of syllabic structure. The study also revealed that of three causal variables, the impact of diglossia and age stage on the syllabic structure had the most effect. Gender proved to be the weakest casual factor of the three. The study concludes with a set of recommendations for future research on syllable structure, and to the field of its acquisition and teaching.

The Multiplicity of Pronoun Reference and its Impact on the Multiplicity of Meaning, Partial Examples, Absolute Guides, Al-Muharrir Al-Wajeez by Ibn Atiyah as a Sample

Smah Abwryash — 2025-02-12

This study is linguistic, in which the researcher comes to a general linguistic phenomenon that all languages share. Sometimes, it even leads to the phenomenon of multiple linguistic meanings and openness of meaning. There is no doubt that words are related to one another, but this relationship may lead to multiple syntactic meanings, and from this foundation it changes. This study explores the impact of this phenomenon in the multiple reference of the pronoun first, representing its positions second, specifying its motives third, examining it in a specific book fourth, and explaining all of that fifth, all of this being from a linguistic perspective sixth, relying in its main research on the editor’s brief book on the interpretation of revelation. Al-Aziz by Ibn Atiya