Marianne Azar

PhD in Neuroscience of Language @ NYU

Interested in morphosemantics/morphology neuroscience and neuropsychology.
Also language arts, language legitimization

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

Interesting that Google docs autocorrects a transliteration of Levantine Arabic now. Doubly interesting that it corrects the word Lebanon (lebnen) to a non-lebanese transliteration of it (even though it's technically right for this song)

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@adelwaizene و قولك كلمة "شلوطة" إلها علاقة بكلمة "شلفطة" ؟ (شلفط الشخص لما اكل الطبخة الحرّة، مثلاً)

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@lawzinaj It might be a contraction of hæ + iyye
ها(ي) + إيّاها ---» هيّاها

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@adelwaizene اتشلوط؟
كأنه سامعة الكلمة قبل، يمكن من عالم بعمر ستي. بس شو معناها بالضبط؟ و بعدها بتنعاز هالإيام؟

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

Something left to explain is what "Bak" could possibly mean to this recipe writer. It may be seen as a metonymy that this rising agent product is just called "Bak" like tissues are Kleenex, and pens are bics (who knew you'd find fun language things in a recipe for date pastries)

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

Sharing this interesting Arabicization of a foreign word (baking powder) in a recipe from a friend's grandmother. This written realization (ba:k mbowder) would literally translate to "powdered Bak". Somewhere along the lines , "baking "became "backen" (perceived equivalency of 1/

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

"aj" and "æ" in levantine Arabic. 2. n>m for easier lenition. Most interesting is somehow this M was now perceived as being part of the same word for powder, forming the participle affix pattern "muCCaC", treating PWDR as a root (which exists, bu:dra = powder) 2/

[Maria Pombo @mari_pombo]

Our lab is hiring a paid ($25/hour), part-time (15-20hr/week), remote or in-person research assistant for the summer (with possibility to extend to the Fall) to work on a project on the perception of beauty. More information below. Please RT!

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

في الحفوف

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@arabic_bad Fascinating, bewildering

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@nyhabash @KSGAPFAL الف مبروك!

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@samijiries Could it also be related to فرج؟
)اجى الفرج)
Not sure this expression is even widely used, but it means that the [long-waited-for turnout] has finally arrived
So could فرجيني / الفرج be related as something like turnout? Can't use this explanation for ورج/ارج but don't use them

[Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 @ev_fedorenko]

I am looking for a post-bac RA to help with our growing InterestingBrains project on brain function in atypical brains (including perinatal stroke, cysts, resection, etc.). Apply here: https://t.co/APjN1qjxpB

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@lawzinaj Oh interesting! i would only use that to mean to fire someone

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@lawzinaj I use this, both my m/p families do too (Jbeil/Batroun and Metn). It's to prune trees, but also has a figurative sense of downsizing/triage (when laying off employees or candidates)

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

My name is right at the signoff , how is this so consistent. - A series.
The world really wants an extra syllable in my name

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@arabic_bad

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@MaryyZahra @ZkakLBlatt_hate @HsenAndil For this though, i think @samijiries and @lawzinaj might have better leads

[Marianne Azar @MarianneAzar3]

@MaryyZahra @ZkakLBlatt_hate @HsenAndil I might be reading too much into your choice of phrasing, but it's best not to assume that LA derived from MSA (unless completely provable): shared prescribed grammar doesn't equate derivation. A conservative view is LA is a result of contact bw several languages in the region,