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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Dear list members,</span><br><div><br></div><div>I'm compiling a learner corpus of Arabic, which will include Arabic texts produced by learners from various L1 backgrounds.</div><div>All texts will be written by hand then transcribed into electronic form.</div><div><br></div><div>I have no clear idea about the standard practice in texts transcription, it would be very appreciated if anyone can enlighten me about this point (<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">whether for Arabic texts or in general</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">), and any references would be also helpful.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes</div><div><br></div><div>Abdul</div> </div></body>
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