Arabic stress is predictable, varies across words, and does not have a contrastive role, whereas, Hebrew stress although nonpredictable, carries contrastive value. Stress processing was assessed in speakers of the two languages at three processing levels: discrimination, short-term memory, and metalinguistic awareness. In Experiment 1, Arabic…

Questionnaire data from 484 Israeli tenth graders studying Arabic showed that Gardner's socioeducational model for second language learning was generalizable to the context of the present study (i.e., a different social context from that in which the model was developed). (23 references) (Author)