Tikrit University

Establishing the Standards and Categories in Distinguishing Diacritics from Letters in Arabic and English

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of English, College of Education for Humanities, Tikrit University

2 Department of English, College of Education for Women, Tikrit University

Abstract
A diacritical mark is a mark which is put above below the letter. That is to say, diacritical marks are seeming ers that play a vital role in attributing words to different ses. According, they can change the syntactic function as well he part of speech of the words they are used with. Thus, they dealt with by different fields of linguistics, such as phonetics, ax, and so forth. However, the current study aims at estigating the importance of these marks in English and Arabic show how important these marks are and how similar versally each language with the other(s). In addition, the study mes against the long-adopted view of the importance of these ks in language.

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Volume 3, Issue 1
Autumn 2019
Pages 72-87

  • Receive Date 12 December 2019
  • Accept Date 20 December 2019
  • Publish Date 01 December 2019