Principles of variation in the use of diacritics (taškīl) in Arabic books

IF 1.7 2区 文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Language Sciences Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101482
Andreas Hallberg
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The Arabic script has a set of optional diacritics (taškīl) that primarily indicate short vowels. These diacritics are used to varying extents, giving a form of orthographic variation potentially affecting every word in a text and various aspects of the reading process. This study is the first empirical investigation into the variation in how Arabic diacritics are used. It employs quantitative corpus linguistic methods to explore diacritization in a 72-million-word corpus consisting of book-length texts of various genres. Children’s literature and poetry were found to vary considerably in the number of diacritics used, while books of normal prose fall within a narrow range of limited use of diacritics. Furthermore, the different diacritics, subdivided by function, were found to follow a hierarchical order of priority that is largely consistent across genres. These findings call into question common descriptions of the Arabic writing system as binarily diacritized or undiacritized. Further lines of research based on these findings are suggested.

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阿拉伯书中变音符使用的变化原则(taškīl)
阿拉伯语脚本有一组可选的变音符号(taškīl),主要表示短元音。这些变音符符在不同程度上被使用,提供了一种可能影响文本中的每个单词和阅读过程的各个方面的正字法变化形式。这项研究是对阿拉伯语变音符如何使用的变化的第一次实证调查。它采用定量语料库语言学方法来探索由各种体裁的书籍长度组成的7200万字语料库中的变音符现象。研究发现,儿童文学和诗歌在使用变音符号的数量上差异很大,而普通散文则在有限使用变音符号的狭窄范围内。此外,不同的变音符号(按功能细分)遵循一个等级优先顺序,在不同类型中基本一致。这些发现对阿拉伯文字系统是二元变音符化还是非变音符化的常见描述提出了质疑。在这些发现的基础上提出了进一步的研究方向。
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期刊介绍: Language Sciences is a forum for debate, conducted so as to be of interest to the widest possible audience, on conceptual and theoretical issues in the various branches of general linguistics. The journal is also concerned with bringing to linguists attention current thinking about language within disciplines other than linguistics itself; relevant contributions from anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists and sociologists, among others, will be warmly received. In addition, the Editor is particularly keen to encourage the submission of essays on topics in the history and philosophy of language studies, and review articles discussing the import of significant recent works on language and linguistics.
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