Abu-Rabia Salim
University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2019 Aug;48(4):785-795. doi: 10.1007/s10936-019-09631-4.
The purpose of the present review is to examine the studies that tested the role of short vowels in reading Arabic. Most of the studies are reviewed in this paper and two contradicted data are presented: data that support positive contribution of short vowels in reading Arabic, and the other data that reject the assumption that short vowels contribute to the quality of reading, and suggest that these short vowels do not add any positive contribution and maybe the opposite; short vowels hinder reading in Arabic orthography. The results are criticized indicating some methodological problems and suggestions for further studies are presented.
本综述的目的是审视那些测试短元音在阿拉伯语阅读中作用的研究。本文对大多数此类研究进行了综述，并呈现了两组相互矛盾的数据：一组数据支持短元音对阿拉伯语阅读有积极作用，另一组数据则否定短元音有助于提高阅读质量这一假设，认为这些短元音并无任何积极作用，甚至可能起到相反作用；在阿拉伯语正字法中，短元音会妨碍阅读。文中对这些结果进行了批评，指出了一些方法上的问题，并提出了进一步研究的建议。
