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Paper submitted to the Second Conference on Arab Cooperation in Terminology, Tunisia, 1987

A Phonological-Semantic Approach to Standardization of Arabic Terminology

Ali Darwish (1987)

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to the standardization of Arabic terminology based on phonological and semantic synergy between source language terms and target language equivalents or counterparts. This approach seeks to preserve the phonological connection between the original terms and newly coined counterparts that have similar semantic properties.