BASSIL MOHAMMAD MOUSA AL MASHAQBA

Bassil Mohammad Mousa Mashaqba	Professor
Linguistics	Linguistics
Faculty of Arts	Department of English Language and Literature
b_mashaqba@hu.edu.jo
ORCID ID : 308350075
Office No. : 239	EXT : 3089

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Ph.D.	University of Salford Manchester	United Kingdom,2015
Master	Yarmouk University	Jordan,2010
Bachelor	Yarmouk University	Jordan,2006

 General linguistics, phonological theory, acoustics, morphology, syntactic theory, language acquisition

Effect of gender and age on VOT in Jordanian Arabic. Journal of Psycholinguistic research. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 55(3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-025-10176-y . [with, M. Deaibes,  A. Huneety & M. Abu Guba].

Phonological whole-word measures in bilingual Arabic-English speaking children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 28(2), 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2024.2415691 . [with Khalid Al-Shdifat, Anas Al huneety, Mohammad Nour Abu Guba, Hadeel & Abdelhadi]

Voice onset time in the Emirati Arabic dialect. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 12(1), 2483604. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2483604. [with Deaibes, Alsharefeen, Rabab’ah, & Alghazo.

Persuasion Strategies in the Prophetic Hadith of Tolerance: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective. Cogent Arts & Humanities. 12(1) https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2505937.  with M. Alzaidi, F. Aldahmani, W. Aldhaheri & S. Alsamahi

Acquisition of Gutturals by Ammani-Jordanian Arabic-Speaking Preschoolers
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 67(7). 2222-2243. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00085. [with Farah Hadban].

The syntax of non-canonical coordination in Jordanian Arabic: An experimental investigation. Open Linguistics. 10 (1), 20240001. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2024-0001 [with Eman Al Khalaf & Rawan Al-Diqs]. 

 On Sociolinguistic Aspects of Hypocoristics in the Jordanian Context. Acta Onomastica. 65(1), 120-137. https://doi.org/10.58756/a1656938. [with Anas Huneety, Alaa Al-Maani & Omar Omoush]

Assessing the phonological abilities of Jordanian Arabic-speaking children with phonological disorders. Communication Sciences and Disorders, 29(1), 127-144.  https://doi.org/10.12963/csd.231021 [with A. Huneety, M. Al-Omari & M. Abu Guba].

Mean Length of Utterance of Jordanian Arabic-speaking children with language impairment. Ampersand. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2024.100171. [with Huneety, Al-Khawaldeh & Maqablah].

The acoustics of Qalqalah in the recitation of the Holy Quran. Islamic Quarterly. 68(2). 221-246.

Negative scope ambiguity in serial verb constructions in Jordanian Arabic: an experimental investigation. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 11(1), 2405251. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2024.2405251. [with Eman Al Khalaf, & Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh]

Irony in Jordanian Arabic on Social Media: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Linguistic and Rhetorical Devices. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language, 12(2), 46-61. 

https://doi.org/10.22034/ijscl.2024.2021255.3363 [with N. Al-khawaldeh, S. Al-Khawaldeh, A. Al Huneety, & N. AlQbailat].

Authorship analysis of three Jordanian columnists: is there a linguistic fingerprint? Cogent Arts & Humanities, 11(1), 2434345. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2024.2434345. [with Moh’D Al-Omari, Hamza Elhersh, Anas al Huneety].

Investigating Second Language Learning Strategies using Think Aloud Protocols: Evidence from Jordanian EFL Learners. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics 10(2). 12-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32601/ejal.10202  [with Alaa Al-Ma’ani, Bara'ah AlAbabneh & Anas Huneety].

Refusal strategies by Ammani Arabic monolingual and English-Arabic bilingual speakers. International Journal of Society, Culture & Language. (ahead of print), 1-16. doi: 10.22034/ijscl.2024.2015689.3262 [with Anas Huneety, Aisha Qandail, Abdalla Shdaifat & Luquman Rabbah].

Refusal Strategies by Young Jordanian Speakers in Arabic and English. Theory & Practice in Language Studies. 14 (6). 1916-1926. [with Anas Huneety, Abdallah Alshdaifat, Esraa al-Faqeeh & Luqman Rababah]. https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1406.33 

Development of Pragmatic Routines Recognition by Algerian EFL Learners. Jordanian Educational Journal, 9(3), 47-68. https://doi.org/10.46515/jaes.v9i3.870 [with Hamida Bouzekria].

The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation and preference for L1 Arabic speakers. Language and Cognition. 15, 4: 834-853. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.28. [with Luma AboHamed & Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh]

Subject-verb agreement inflection in Arabic-speaking individuals with Down syndrome. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics. 38(7): 587–604.   https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2023.2221373 [With Eman Al Khalaf, Anas Huneety & Hameen Abu Sa’aleek].

Multisyllabic Word Production by Jordanian Arabic Speaking Children. Speech, Language and Hearing. 26 (4): 249–265. [with Anas Huneety, Khalid Al-Shdifat, Mohammad Nour Abu Guba, & Bara’ah Al-Duneibat]. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2023.2189377

Semantic Scope in Q-Float Constructions: An Experimental Investigation. Lingua 282. [With Eman Al Khalaf]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2022.103457 

Production of Pragmatic Routines by Algerian EFL Learners: The Effect of Corpus-based Instruction. Ampersand 10: 100122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2023.100122 [With Hamida Bouzekria, Eman Al Khalaf & Anas Huneety].

Polysyllabic shortening in Modern Standard Arabic. Journal of Semitic Studies 68 (2): 759–770. [Oxford University Press] [with Mohammad Nour Abu Guba & Anas Huneety]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgac030

Mental Representation of Multiple Default Plurals: Evidence from the Adaptation of English Loanwords in Arabic. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, 23(2), 277–298. https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes.v23i2.464 [With Mohammed Nour Abu Guba, Anas Huneety, and Mutasim Al-Deaibes]

Phonological Abilities of Children with Dyslexia in Jordan: A Whole-Word Approach. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9 (3), 21-32. [with Anas Huneety, Nida, Khashashneh, M.D. Guba, & Abdullah Alshdaifat. http://dx.doi.org/10.32601/ejal.903003 

Production of vowel reduction by Jordanian Arabic speakers of English: An acoustic study. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 59. [With Mohammad Nour Abu Guba, Samer Jarbou & Omer Hajeid].
https://doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2022-2011

Supremacy of Suprasegmentals in Arabic Phonology: Evidence from Malapropisms. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 10(1): 9-23. Retrieved from [With Mohammad Nour Abu Guba, Anas Huneety & Khalid Al-Shdifat]
http://eejpl.vnu.edu.ua/index.php/eejpl/article/view/728.

Grammatical number in Arabic-English bilingual children. Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics. 9, 2: 170-185. [with Anas Huneety, Abdallah Alshdaifat & Wafa’a Abu Aisheh]

A Pragmatic Study on Managing Rapport in Responding to Reprimands in Jordanian Arabic. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 10(5), 67–83. [with Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh, Haneen Abuziad, Mashaqba & Anas Huneety]  https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/1712

Hypocoristics in the Ammani-Jordanian Context: A Construction Morphology Perspective. Cogent Arts and Humanities. 10:1, 2180877, DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2023.2180877 [With Alaa Al-Maani, Anas Huneety, and Mutasim Al-Deaibes].

Acoustics of long vowels in Arabic-Speaking Children with Hearing Impairment. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10, 267 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01778-9 [Springer]. [With Anas Huneety, Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh & Zainab Zeidan]

Normativity and variation in the address terms system practiced among the Jordanian youth community. Languages, 8(1), 31. [with Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh, Sameer Olimat & Moh’D Al-Omari & Asim Alkhawaldeh] https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010031

Acquisition of Stress in the Speech of Ammani Arabic-Speaking Children. Ampersand: 10. [With Anas Huneety, Mohammad Nour Abu Guba & Khalid Al-Shdifat]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2022.100094

Subtitling sensitive Arabic language for English audiences: A case study of Netflix’s jinn and Al-rawabi shows. Ampersand. [with Sameer Olimat, Dana Mahadin & Amer Al-Adwan] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2023.100142. 

The Use of Discourse Markers in Argumentative Compositions by Jordanian EFL learners. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 10, 41. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01525-0 [with Anas Huneety, Asim Alkhawaldeh, Zainab Zaidan & Abdallah Alshdaifat].

Attitude towards Jordanian Arabic dialects: A sociolinguistic perspective. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature 15, 3: 959-980. [with Anas Huneety, Suhaib Al-Abed Al-Haq & Yasimin Dardas]. https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.15.3.12 

Broken plural in Jordanian Arabic: Constraint-based evidence from loanwords adaptation. Dialectologia 30, 103-134. [With Mohammad Nour Abu Guba, Anas Huneety & Eman Al Khalaf]. DOI: 10.1344/Dialectologia2023.30.5

The impact of COVID-19 and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners’ vocabulary repertoire. Ampersand. [With Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh, Sameer Olimat, Dana Mahadin & Anas Huneety]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2023.100119 

Refusing invitations: A contrastive pragmatic study of Jordanian Arabic and Castilian Spanish. Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, 50(5), 72–86. https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v50i5.1636. [With Asim Khawaldeh, Ali Al Ewaidat, Anas Huneety & Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh]. 

A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of Jordanians’ Facebook Status Updates during COVID-19. Ampersand 10. [With Hadeel Abdalhadi, Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh, & Anas Huneety]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2022.100099 

Inadequate Top-Down Information and Vowel Judgement. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 14(4), 912-917. [with Zuraiq, et al]. https://doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1404.07 

Production of gutturals by non-native speakers of Arabic. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 12(2). 334-347. [with Anas Huneety, Mohammed Nour Abu Guba & Bara’ah Al-Duneibat]. https://doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v12i2.26143  

Acquisition of emphatic consonants by Ammani Arabic-speaking children. Language Acquisition 29 (4). 441-456. [with Aya Daud, Wael Zuraiq & Anas Huneety]. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10489223.2022.2049600 

On Pragmatics-syntax interface: The case of vocative nominals in Jordanian Arabic. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature 14 (2). 309-327 [with Abdulaziz Jaradat & Anas Huneety].  https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.14.2.7

Mental representation of English past tense morphology by Jordanian EFL students: A dual mechanism analysis. Dialectologia 29 (1). 1-29 [with Sabri Shboul, Ayat Al-Abed, Moh’d Al-Omari, Wael Zuraiq & Anas Huneety]. https://doi.org/10.1344/dialectologia2022.29.1

On Morphology-Phonology Interface: Insights from Diminutives in Jordanian Arabic. Theory & Practice in Language Studies 12 (6). 1206-1213 [with Mohammed Nour Abu Guba, Anas Huneety & Zainab Zeidan]. https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1206.21

Geminate acquisition and representation by Ammani Arabic-speaking children. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 21(1).219-242 [with Anas Huneety, Nisreen Al-Khawaldeh & Baraah Thnaibat]. https://doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.21.1.13

Attitudes towards Jordanian Arabic-Accented English among Native and Non-Native Speakers. ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries. 18 (2).9-29 [with Mohammad Nour Abu Guba & Anas Huneety]. https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.18.2.9-29

Phonological aspects of al-Issa Arabic, a Bedouin dialect in the north of Jordan. Heliyon. 7(7). 1-10 [e07405] [with Anas Huneety, Riyad abu Hula & Baraah Thnaibat]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07405

- (2021). Geminate Acquisition and Representation by Ammani Arabic-Speaking Children. International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 21 (1). 219-242.


- (2020). Acquisition of broken plural patterns by Jordanian children. Linguistics 58 (4). 1009-1022.

- (2020). Labile anticausatives in Jordanian Arabic. LINGUA POSNANIENSIS 62(2). 19-45.

- (2020). Grammatical number inflection in Arabic-speaking children and young adults with Down syndrome. South African Journal of Communication Disorders, 67(1), a702.

- (2020). Patterns of repetition in folk song driven by phonology and morphology. Dirasat 47 (2). 498-508.

- (2020). Stress production by Cebuano learners of Arabic: A metrical analysis. Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 9 (3). 517-525.

- (2020). Expanding the default forms in the lexicon: the sound masculine plural inflection. OPCION. 36 (26). 3042-3058.

- (2020) Effects of listeners’ expectations of the speakers’ nativeness: Identification of phonemic vowel length. Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8 (4). 1106-1115.

- (2020). Tentative language in mixed gender conversations of Jordanians: the influence of gender and social status. Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 8 (1). 399-414.

- (2020). Typological universals of agreements in Arabic second language acquisition. Dirasat 47(1) 314-327.

-  (2020). Similarity effects on the emergence of default inflection in Jordanian Arabic. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature 12 (3). [IN PRESS].

- (2019). Acquisition of syllable structure in Jordanian Arabic. Communication Sciences and Disorders 24 (4). 953-967.

-  (2019). Patterns of lexical cohesion in Arabic newspaper editorials. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature
11(3).273-296.

- (2018). Emergence of iambs in Eastern Arabic: Metrical iambicity dominating optimal nonfinality. SKASE Journal of Theoritical Linguistics 15(3), 15-36.

- (2017). Morpho-phonological structure of sound feminine plural suffix -aat: Revisited. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature 6 (6). 115-122.

- (2016). Emphatic segments and emphasis spread in rural Jordanian Arabic. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 7 (5). 294-298.

- (2016). Stress rules in loan words in Bedouin Jordanian Arabic: Theoretical account. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 13 (3). 2-13.

- (2016). A corpus-based discourse analysis study of WhatsApp Messenger’s semantic notifications. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature 5 (6). 158–165. 

- (2017). The linguistic features of intertextuality in Jordan's free verse poetry: Ayman Al-Otoum as a case study.  International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature 6 (1). 1-10.

- (2017). A Contrastive Study of Cohesion in Arabic and English Religious Discourse. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature 6 (3). 116-122.

i) Ph.D.
Hamida Buzakriyya: Development of pragmatic routines by Algerian EFL learners. University of Jordan. [Ph.D. Dissertation]

(ii) MA
Dana Abu-Zaid: Phonological Analysis of Slips of the Ear by Jordanian EFL Learners

Neven Raghad: The linguistic landscape of nurseries and kindergartens in Jordan

Haya Sawalma: The Linguistic Landscape of King Abdullah II Schools for Excellence

Fatima Younis: Mean Length of Utterance in Jordanian Arabic-Speaking Children with Down Syndrome

Eman Mousa: Mean length of utterance in autistic Jordanian Arabic-speaking children

Maram Khalaila: Bidialectal practices of compliments by L2 Arabic learners: A pragmatic study

Enas Khaza’la: Linguistic Diversity in Schoolscapes: Visual Monolingual and Bilingual Practices Carried out in Jordanian public and Private Schools

Farah Mahdawi: Intonation in Jordanian-Arabic Speaking Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Alia Njum: Development of Phonological Awareness of Dyslexic JA-Speaking Children: The Role of Diglossia

Rand Kfawin: Visual linguistic diversity in ancient Christian sites: The case of the Baptism site in Jordan

Qusai Zawahra: Linguistic landscaping and the highway in Jordan: Exploring functions of language choices enacted on signs

Eman Salim: Plural formation by English learners of Arabic: A dual mechanism perspective.

Abdallah Isma’il: English Loanwords in Arabic: A Dual-Mechanism Approach. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Sara Rashid: Acquisition of verbs in Jordanian Arabic: A morphological study. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Wafa’a Abu Eisha: Acquisition of grammatical number by bilingual children. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Yasmin Dardas: Patterning of vowels in Jordanian Arabic dialects: A socio-phonological study. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Heba Nweri: Bidialectal practices in the pragmatic development of greetings by L2 Arabic. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Farah Da’san: ‘Parent-child negotiation strategies in Dr. Phil’s TV show’. University of Jordan. [M.A. Thesis]

Nour Al-Qallab: ‘Phonological aspects of Jordanian children and young adults with Down Syndrome’. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Zahra’ AlOmari: ‘Acoustic aspects of Umm Qais Arabic, northern Jordan’. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]
Jehan Heshma: ‘Emotional appealing strategies made by Jordanian Arabic speakers in requests’. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Haneen Abu Sa’aleek: ‘Morphological aspects of Jordanian children with Down syndrome’. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Ahd Omoush: ‘Phonological aspects of pseudowords by Jordanian infants’. The Hashemite University. [M.A. Thesis]

Sara Zyoud: Sara Issa: ‘Aspects of morphophonological adaptation of English loanwords in Bedouin Jordanian Arabic’. The Hashemite University.

Osama Khatatneh: ‘Oral repetition by Jordanian EFL learners of English’. The Hashemite University.

[Academic]:
- Full Prof. of Linguistics, he Hashemite University, July 2024-present. 
- Associate Professor of Linguistics, The Hashemite University, July 2020-July 2024. 
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics, The Hashemite University, July 2015 - July 2020.

[Administrative]:

- -	Dean of Student Affairs, HU, Dec. 2023- Sep.2025.
-	Chairman of the Student Disciplinary Board, HU, Dec. 2023- Sep.2025.
-	Administrative Board Member, Jordanian Universities Sports Federation (Sep 2023 – Sep 2025)
-	Director of Councils Secretariat, HU, Sep. 2020-July 2024.
-	Director of Language Center, HU, Oct. 2018- Sep. 2020. 
-	Department Chair, English Language & Literature, HU, Sep. 2016- Oct. 2018. 
-	Secretary of Deans Council, HU, Sep. 2020- July 2024. 
-	Secretary of University Council, HU, Sep. 2020- July 2024. 
-	Secretary of Appointment & Promotion Committee, HU, Sep. 2020 – July 2024.

Advanced Phonology (MA), Readings in Arabic Linguistics (MA), Research Methods (MA), Research Seminar (MA).
Advanced English Phonology, English Phonetics, English Phonology & Morphology, Introduction to Linguistics,  Modern Syntactic Theory, Pronunciation and Speech, Research Project, Special Topic in Language, English Grammar, Oral Skills, Listening Skills, Essay Writing, English for Tourism (1), Reading, Mass Media.

- Full Professor of Linguistics - The Hashemite University, July 2024- present.
- Associate Professor of Linguistics, The Hashemite University, July 2020-July 2024. 
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics, The Hashemite University, 2015- 2020. 
- Lecturer of the English language, North Borders University: KSA, 2010 - 2012.
- Teacher of English language, the Ministry of Education, 2006-2010.
- Expert in driving acoustic programs for speech sounds such as PRAAT, CSL Program, and ELAN.   
- Creating computerized lectures using Microsoft PPT Mix/Mec.

Teaching English communication skills for members of the local community at some far away youth centers (North Bedouin dwellers)  in collaboration with the Royal Hashemite Court and All Jordan Youth Commission

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