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Syllable Weight in African Languages
Edited by Paul Newman
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 338] 2017
► pp. 49–67

Chapter 3
Syllable weight and morphophonologically induced resyllabification in Maghrebi Arabic

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Synchronic analyses
    • 2.1Zero is primary, schwa is epenthetic
    • 2.2Schwa is primary, zero results from deletion
    • 2.3Syllable structure determines both schwa and zero
    • 2.4Metrical structure determines zero, dialects differ on schwa
  • 3.The role of syllable weight
  • 4.Diachronic analysis
  • 5.The role of contact?
  • 6.Conclusion
  • References
Published online: 12 April 2017
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