Arabic-L:PEDA:Long and Short Vowel responses

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Date:  08 Aug 2002
From:suma99 at att.net
Subject:Long and Short Vowel response

Not sure what exactly you mean when you say some
students have trouble differentiating between long and
short vowels.
If you mean they miss-read (mispronounce)words i.e.
reading it with long vowel when it should be short, or
vice-versa; I'd say it's nothing to worry about. The
tongue just still isn't quite used to producing the
Arabic words, so the put stress in wrong places or
misvowelize. It goes away with greater proficiency
develops.
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Date:  08 Aug 2002
From:craig wallace <craigwal at yahoo.com>
Subject:Long and Short Vowel response

Are we talking  here of Arabic-speakers using their L1 or 
Arabic-speakers using English (their L2)?

Maybe the writer would also like to contact me personally, as much of  
the latter is the focus of my almost-completed doctorate.

Craig Wallace

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3)
Date:  08 Aug 2002
From:"Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:Long and Short Vowel response

  Yet we say inda-naa for "chez nous"="at our home/house." Isn't one's
home the most inalienable of one's possessions, or is this a question
for psychologists and/or anthropologists rather than linguists??

                                               Mike Schub

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