This paper investigates the realization patterns of the glottal stop attested in Urban Central Sudanese Arabic (UCSA). To this end, the paper examines the realizations of forms whose roots consist of glottal stop radicals. Root-initial and root-medial glottal stops are shown to exhibit… read more
Building on Ali (2014, 2017), this paper proposes a Stratal OT account of the interaction between phrasal syncope and resyllabification in two dialects of Sudanese Arabic. The account expresses the connection between the two phenomena in terms of the interaction between the syncope constraint and… read more
This paper proposes a prosodic account of syncope and of epenthesis and consonant deletion, which function as strategies for repairing unsyllabified segments, in three dialects of Sudanese Arabic. The analysis identifies the precise prosodic domains of syllabification in these dialects and shows… read more