Rajaa Aquil
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rajaa Aquil plays a role.
Articles
2014 Secondary stress exist in Cairene Arabic? Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. New York, 2012, Khamis-Dakwar, Reem and Karen Froud (eds.), pp. 163–184 | Article
In this paper I demonstrate that secondary stress in Cairene Arabic (CA) exists, and that is by invoking Optimality Theoretic (OT) constraints of FootBinarity, Align-Head/R, Trochaic, Wsp, *Clash, and *Lapse. There is no dispute in the literature over the place of primary stress, on one of the… read more
2011 Empirical evidence: Stress as a perceptual unit in Cairene spoken Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Broselow, Ellen and Hamid Ouali (eds.), pp. 3–20 | Article
Continuous and overlapping sounds in connected speech yield an output that has very few reliable cues to detect word boundaries. This may obscure listeners’ recognition of spoken words. Therefore, investigations to find the processes native listeners use to start lexical access have been the focus… read more