Abdullah Alfaifi

List of John Benjamins publications for which Abdullah Alfaifi plays a role.

Articles

After overviewing some unusual features of Faifi Arabic, the present study investigates the distribution of emphatic fricatives in a subvariety of Faifi Arabic (FA) focusing on their unique realizations. First, we observe that the emphatic /sˤ/, which is cognate with Classical Arabic /sˤ/, is… read more
Abo Mokh, Noor, Steven M. Lulich, Abdullah Alfaifi, Sarah Robinson, Sherman Charles and Kenneth de Jong 2020 A study of the place of articulation of the Arabic voiceless dorsal fricativePerspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tempe, Arizona, 2018, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.), pp. 55–68 | Chapter
Previous descriptions of the place of articulation of the Arabic dorsal fricative suggest that it ranges from velar to uvular, and there remains uncertainty in terms of identifying the place of articulation of this fricative. If the dorsal fricatives are velar in articulation, this presents a… read more