This study tends to measure aggression among university students. The level of aggression each in... more This study tends to measure aggression among university students. The level of aggression each individual or group of persons express can often be subject to calculation in order to define the behaviour of individuals or groups (Richardson, 1994). This study aims at measuring aggression in groups of university students, mainly students of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Ben M'sik, Casablanca. This study uses quantitative approach by means of questionnaire survey. The same original Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) is modified, translated and replicated in this study. The modified version is a 27-item instrument designed to measure the total tendency towards aggression among university students by assessing four scales of Aggression: (a) physical aggression, (b) verbal aggression, (c) anger and (d) hostility. The Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) is conducted in a group of 30 university students, 16 males and 14 females. The students have been selected using random sampling. Males score higher in Physical Anger, Verbal Anger and Hostility. Females score higher in Anger. The findings show that Ben M'sik Faculty of Arts students express aggression but with less tendency than subjects of other studies. This study finally suggests the need to examine the individual’s components in Aggression.
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This paper studies contrast among emphatic sounds in Classical Arabic. In Modern ling... more Abstract
This paper studies contrast among emphatic sounds in Classical Arabic. In Modern linguistics these emphatic sounds contrast with their non-emphatic counterparts. Classical Arabic scholars indicate contrast among the emphatic group. This paper examines two emphatic sounds, namely /D/ and /Z/. The aim of this paper is to prove that these two sounds contrast, distinguish meaning and affect neighbouring segments. This paper also discusses a possible near-allophonic case for these emphatic sounds. The phonological environment of these two sounds is investigated in terms of distinctive features with the attempt of providing natural classes of sounds. This paper studies contrast under Classical Generative Phonology and Distinctive Features Theory (Chomsky and Halle 1968). This paper shows that the two emphatic sounds /D/ and /Z/ are two separate phonemes and that respectively all natural classes of sounds occur in their environment, except for the natural class of approximants. Yet sounds that have the features [+high, -back] and [-high, +back] are more susceptible to emphasis spread. This paper finally retains that two consonants and two vowels emphasized when they occur in the environment of the emphatic sounds and that the emphatic spread is blocked leftward whenever the segment is [+high, -back]. These two emphatic sounds also appear in Near-complementary Distribution.
The following document contains the one-page introduction to the English Part of the Deewan of Fa... more The following document contains the one-page introduction to the English Part of the Deewan of Fayssal Chafaki. The Deewan is a collection of poems in four different languages. These languages are Arabic, English, Spanish, and Russian. Some poems are in Arabic with sequels in the afore-mentioned languages. The Deewan also contains Arajiz poems, an embellished type of Arabic Prosodic Poetry. These poems have been composed by Fayssal Chafaki through the period of thirty-four years and more.
This study tends to measure aggression among university students. The level of aggression each in... more This study tends to measure aggression among university students. The level of aggression each individual or group of persons express can often be subject to calculation in order to define the behaviour of individuals or groups (Richardson, 1994). This study aims at measuring aggression in groups of university students, mainly students of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Ben M'sik, Casablanca. This study uses quantitative approach by means of questionnaire survey. The same original Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry, 1992) is modified, translated and replicated in this study. The modified version is a 27-item instrument designed to measure the total tendency towards aggression among university students by assessing four scales of Aggression: (a) physical aggression, (b) verbal aggression, (c) anger and (d) hostility. The Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ) is conducted in a group of 30 university students, 16 males and 14 females. The students have been selected using random sampling. Males score higher in Physical Anger, Verbal Anger and Hostility. Females score higher in Anger. The findings show that Ben M'sik Faculty of Arts students express aggression but with less tendency than subjects of other studies. This study finally suggests the need to examine the individual’s components in Aggression.
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This paper studies contrast among emphatic sounds in Classical Arabic. In Modern ling... more Abstract
This paper studies contrast among emphatic sounds in Classical Arabic. In Modern linguistics these emphatic sounds contrast with their non-emphatic counterparts. Classical Arabic scholars indicate contrast among the emphatic group. This paper examines two emphatic sounds, namely /D/ and /Z/. The aim of this paper is to prove that these two sounds contrast, distinguish meaning and affect neighbouring segments. This paper also discusses a possible near-allophonic case for these emphatic sounds. The phonological environment of these two sounds is investigated in terms of distinctive features with the attempt of providing natural classes of sounds. This paper studies contrast under Classical Generative Phonology and Distinctive Features Theory (Chomsky and Halle 1968). This paper shows that the two emphatic sounds /D/ and /Z/ are two separate phonemes and that respectively all natural classes of sounds occur in their environment, except for the natural class of approximants. Yet sounds that have the features [+high, -back] and [-high, +back] are more susceptible to emphasis spread. This paper finally retains that two consonants and two vowels emphasized when they occur in the environment of the emphatic sounds and that the emphatic spread is blocked leftward whenever the segment is [+high, -back]. These two emphatic sounds also appear in Near-complementary Distribution.
The following document contains the one-page introduction to the English Part of the Deewan of Fa... more The following document contains the one-page introduction to the English Part of the Deewan of Fayssal Chafaki. The Deewan is a collection of poems in four different languages. These languages are Arabic, English, Spanish, and Russian. Some poems are in Arabic with sequels in the afore-mentioned languages. The Deewan also contains Arajiz poems, an embellished type of Arabic Prosodic Poetry. These poems have been composed by Fayssal Chafaki through the period of thirty-four years and more.
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This paper studies contrast among emphatic sounds in Classical Arabic. In Modern linguistics these emphatic sounds contrast with their non-emphatic counterparts. Classical Arabic scholars indicate contrast among the emphatic group. This paper examines two emphatic sounds, namely /D/ and /Z/. The aim of this paper is to prove that these two sounds contrast, distinguish meaning and affect neighbouring segments. This paper also discusses a possible near-allophonic case for these emphatic sounds. The phonological environment of these two sounds is investigated in terms of distinctive features with the attempt of providing natural classes of sounds. This paper studies contrast under Classical Generative Phonology and Distinctive Features Theory (Chomsky and Halle 1968). This paper shows that the two emphatic sounds /D/ and /Z/ are two separate phonemes and that respectively all natural classes of sounds occur in their environment, except for the natural class of approximants. Yet sounds that have the features [+high, -back] and [-high, +back] are more susceptible to emphasis spread. This paper finally retains that two consonants and two vowels emphasized when they occur in the environment of the emphatic sounds and that the emphatic spread is blocked leftward whenever the segment is [+high, -back]. These two emphatic sounds also appear in Near-complementary Distribution.
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This paper studies contrast among emphatic sounds in Classical Arabic. In Modern linguistics these emphatic sounds contrast with their non-emphatic counterparts. Classical Arabic scholars indicate contrast among the emphatic group. This paper examines two emphatic sounds, namely /D/ and /Z/. The aim of this paper is to prove that these two sounds contrast, distinguish meaning and affect neighbouring segments. This paper also discusses a possible near-allophonic case for these emphatic sounds. The phonological environment of these two sounds is investigated in terms of distinctive features with the attempt of providing natural classes of sounds. This paper studies contrast under Classical Generative Phonology and Distinctive Features Theory (Chomsky and Halle 1968). This paper shows that the two emphatic sounds /D/ and /Z/ are two separate phonemes and that respectively all natural classes of sounds occur in their environment, except for the natural class of approximants. Yet sounds that have the features [+high, -back] and [-high, +back] are more susceptible to emphasis spread. This paper finally retains that two consonants and two vowels emphasized when they occur in the environment of the emphatic sounds and that the emphatic spread is blocked leftward whenever the segment is [+high, -back]. These two emphatic sounds also appear in Near-complementary Distribution.