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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII
Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013
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sal.3
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https://benjamins.com
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Stuart Davis
Davis, Stuart
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Davis
Indiana University, Bloomington
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Usama Soltan
Soltan, Usama
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Soltan
Middlebury College
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The study of Arabic dialects has been an important and rich area of research over the past thirty-five years or so, with significant implications for modern linguistic analysis. The current volume builds on this tradition with ten scholarly contributions that provide novel data and analyses in multiple areas of Arabic linguistics: Syntax and its interfaces; regional and sociolinguistic variation; and first language acquisition. The linguistic facts in the volume are drawn from the various Arabic dialects spoken in North Africa, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and Standard Arabic, and the analyses proposed reflect current approaches in linguistic theory. The volume, therefore, should be of interest to formal linguists, sociolinguists, historical linguists, dialectologists, as well as researchers on first language acquisition. It is our hope that the papers in this volume will spur more interest in and research on further aspects of Arabic linguistics.
05
For the Arabist reader, these papers will serve as groundbreaking work unifying detailed studies of Arabic with theoretically valuable discussion. For the general linguist, these papers provide a fine entry point to the Arabic specialist literature via empirically mature treatments of many different facets of the language.
Matthew A. Tucker, Oakland University, in Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 10 (2018)
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Stuart Davis
Davis, Stuart
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Indiana University
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Usama Soltan
Soltan, Usama
Usama
Soltan
Middlebury College
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Part I: Syntax and its interfaces
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Locative prepositional phrases and inalienable PLACE in Lebanese Arabic*
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Lina Choueiri
Choueiri, Lina
Lina
Choueiri
American University of Beirut
20
Lebanese Arabic
20
lexical vs. functional prepositions
20
Locative PPs
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null PLACE
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In this paper, I investigate locative PPs in their locative meaning. Based on new empirical evidence from Lebanese Arabic, I propose that a rich constituent structure, which involves an inalienable PLACE noun in a part-whole relation with the ground DP, underlies the syntax of locative prepositions. The locative meaning of prepositions derives from the presence of this PLACE noun, which mostly remains phonologically null. I argue that Lebanese Arabic makes a formal distinction between functional and lexical prepositions, and that the observed differences between them can be attributed to the position they occupy in the rich structure of locatives. The proposed analysis is also discussed in light of recent literature on the architecture of PPs.
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Article
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On the syntax of exceptive constructions in Egyptian Arabic*
1
A01
Usama Soltan
Soltan, Usama
Usama
Soltan
Middlebury College
20
connected exceptives
20
coordination
20
Egyptian Arabic
20
ellipsis
20
Free exceptives
01
The goal of this paper is twofold: First, it provides a descriptive account of the syntactic properties of Egyptian Arabic exceptive phrases headed by the particle <i>ʔillaa</i>. Second, it proposes an analysis of these syntactic properties in terms of Hoeksema’s (1987) seminal distinction between <i>connected exceptives</i> (CEs) and <i>free exceptives</i> (FEs). More specifically, CEs are argued to be coordinated DPs within a mono-clausal structure, whereas FEs are argued to be coordinated CPs which undergo ellipsis. The analysis is shown to account for the distribution of exceptive phrases in the language, and is supported by empirical facts related to cases of non-elliptical FEs, similarities with ellipsis phenomena, occurrence of speaker-oriented adverbials, and effects of the parallelism constraint on FEs.
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Verbal and nominal plurals and the syntaxmorphology interface
1
A01
Elabbas Benmamoun
Benmamoun, Elabbas
Elabbas
Benmamoun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
20
Arabic
20
nominal plurals
20
syntax-morphology interface
20
Verbal plurals
01
One of the assumptions of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995, and subsequent work within the program) is the idea that (narrow) syntactic derivations are driven by the interaction between formal features. However, one key aspect of formal features that drives their syntactic activity is the lack of interpretability. Thus, non-interpretable agreement features on temporal and verbal heads must be paired with interpretable matching features on nominal elements such as subjects and objects. There is compelling morpho-phonological evidence from Arabic that this dichotomy is plausible and has far reaching consequences for the syntax-morphology interface. The critical argument comes from cases of nominal and verbal plurals where the plural feature is spelled-out differently depending on whether it is interpretable or non-interpretable on its immediate host.
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JB code
sal.3.04hel
75
97
23
Article
7
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Exploring the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic
1
A01
Sam Hellmuth
Hellmuth, Sam
Sam
Hellmuth
University of York
20
Arabic
20
intonation
20
phrasing
20
prosody
20
sandhi
01
Despite an abundance of research on Arabic syntax and phonology as separate domains, there is as yet relatively little research at the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic. This paper begins by providing an overview of what we know so far, in an effort to identify reasons for the lack of work at the interface to date. The paper then presents a review of prior work on the syntax-phonology mapping in Egyptian Arabic (EA) – set in the context of developments in the wider syntaxphonology literature – in order to show that interface work requires expertise in both phonetics/phonology and syntax. Some early results are then presented from a pilot study which compares for the first time the basic syntaxphonology mapping patterns in two dialects of Arabic – EA, and Jordanian Arabic (JA) – and explores whether dialect-internal, inter-speaker variation, previously observed in EA, is also found in JA.
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A salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative hāk as used in oral narratives*
A
salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative hāk as used in oral narratives*
1
A01
Amel Khalfaoui
Khalfaoui, Amel
Amel
Khalfaoui
University of Oklahoma
20
cognitive status
20
demonstratives
20
discourse analysis
20
discourse salience
20
Relevance Theory
20
Tunisian Arabic
01
This paper reports on a study of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative <i>hāk, </i>which encodes the cognitive status FAMILIAR, in the sense of the Givenness Hierarchy of Gundel et al. (1993). Although this demonstrative is usually used for at most FAMILIAR, it is frequently used in folk tales for the statuses ACTIVATED and IN FOCUS. I propose that this is a strategy used by the narrator to impose more processing effort on the hearer in order increase the relative salience of the referent of <i>hāk</i>. However, the degree of relative salience to which these entities are promoted is not always the same, and has to do with the centrality of the referent of <i>hāk </i>in the story.
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Part II: Arabic Linguistic Variation
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150
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Article
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Moroccan artists ‘blacklisted’
Dialect loyalty and gendered national identity in an age of digital discourse*
1
A01
Atiqa Hachimi
Hachimi, Atiqa
Atiqa
Hachimi
University of Toronto
20
Facebook
20
gender
20
Metalanguage
20
Moroccan Arabic
20
national identity
01
This paper explores contestation in digital metalinguistic discourse from the perspective of the Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology – the unequal relationship between North African and Middle Eastern vernacular Arabic varieties. Specifically, the paper examines a Facebook page dedicated to the ‘Blacklisting’ of Moroccan artists who converge to Mashreqi Arabic varieties in pan-Arab encounters through examining these artists’ communicative practices and argues that the Blacklist Facebook is a discursive site that works to demand national dialect loyalty, especially from female cultural figures. However, the anxieties and language ideological debates made explicit on the Facebook page are not exclusively about language; more broadly, they unravel the complex relationships between communicative practice, morality, and today’s conceptualizations of Moroccan national identity.
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JB code
sal.3.07alw
151
169
19
Article
11
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Lateral fricative ḍād in Tihāmat Qaḥtān
A quantitative sociolinguistic investigation
1
A01
Enam Al-Wer
Al-Wer, Enam
Enam
Al-Wer
University of Essex
2
A01
Khairia Al-Qahtani
Al-Qahtani, Khairia
Khairia
Al-Qahtani
University of Essex
20
lateral fricative
20
merger
20
sociolinguistics
20
southern Arabia
20
variation
01
This article presents the results of a sociolinguistic investigation of the phonemic status of the emphatic lateral fricative [ɮʕ] in the dialects of Tihamat Qah<i>̣</i>tān, Saudi Arabia<i>. </i>The study is based on empirical data, obtained through sociolinguistic interviews, analyzed quantitatively, and correlated with age, gender, locality and linguistic environment. The statistical analysis reveals that (i), while the lateral fricative is used in considerable proportion, it is undergoing change to emphatic interdental [ðʕ]; (ii), many speakers use the lateralized variant in historically *ðʕ items, which suggests that while both sounds are present in the phonemic inventory of these dialects, they are treated as allophones of a single phonological unit; this result also suggests that the lateral variant has social meaning.
10
01
JB code
sal.3.08fre
171
185
15
Article
12
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Arabic ȷ̌ and the class of Sun Letters
A historical and dialectological perspective
1
A01
Aaron Freeman
Freeman, Aaron
Aaron
Freeman
University of Pennsylvania*
20
consonant place
20
definite article
20
dialectology
20
jiim
20
phonology
01
This article examines the interaction between Arabic definite article assimilation to coronals and the realization of <i>ȷ�</i> across dialects. Three contrasting grammatical patterns were identified: (1) <i>ȷ�</i> does not trigger assimilation, (2) coronal <i>ȷ�</i> triggers assimilation, and (3) velar <i>g < ȷ�</i> optionally triggers assimilation. Historical evidence indicates that velar, palatal, and prepalatal variants of <i>ȷ�</i> have coexisted since Old Arabic, while (3) arose from (2) in urban Egyptian Arabic from late generalization of the velar variant<i>.</i> I further propose that an underlyingly palatal, rather than velar, variant underlies the peninsular Arabian dialects with pattern (1), and that pattern (2) emerged in Old Arabic from phonological reanalysis of fronted <i>ȷ�</i> as coronal.
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212
26
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13
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Quantifying lexical and pronunciation variation between three Arabic varieties*
1
A01
Mahmoud Abunasser
Abunasser, Mahmoud
Mahmoud
Abunasser
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2
A01
Elabbas Benmamoun
Benmamoun, Elabbas
Elabbas
Benmamoun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
20
Arabic dialectology
20
Computational measures of linguistic variation
20
Lexical elicitation
20
linguistic distance between Arabic varietie
01
This paper reports on computational measures of linguistic variation that quantify the lexical and pronunciation variation between three varieties of Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, and Gulf Arabic. We provide three measures of linguistic variation; all computed based on elicitation of the Swadesh list. The first measure is the lexical variation based on the percentage of noncognate words. The second is another lexical measure that takes into account a pronunciation aspect by considering the IPA transcription of the same word list. The third is a pronunciation measure that computes the variation of the IPA transcription of the cognate words in the Swadesh list. The results of the three measures show that geographically proximate languages are also linguistically closer to each other.
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Part III: First Language Acquisition
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236
22
Article
15
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Compensatory lengthening
Evidence from child Arabic
1
A01
Eman Abdoh
Abdoh, Eman
Eman
Abdoh
King Abdulaziz University – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
20
Arabic
20
C-lengthening
20
compensatory V-lengthening
20
word minimality
01
This paper examines compensatory lengthening (henceforth CL) in child Hijazi Arabic within the framework of prosodic theory and moraic theory to see if children acquiring Arabic use CL in case of coda/vowel deletion. On the basis of cross-sectional and semi-longitudinal data collected from 20 children aged from 1;3 to 2;0, the study describes and analyzes two CL types, V-lengthening and C-lengthening, providing a mora-based analysis and examining adjacency and directionality factors. The study provides cross-linguistic evidence for the existence of CL in child Arabic. The subjects use CL early (1;3) and arguably follow a universal path in this respect. Their productions display moraic conservation, sensitivity to bimoraicity and word minimality. They also show a preference for left-to-right directionality in CL.
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Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013
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sal.3
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https://benjamins.com
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https://benjamins.com/catalog/sal.3
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B01
Stuart Davis
Davis, Stuart
Stuart
Davis
Indiana University, Bloomington
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Usama Soltan
Soltan, Usama
Usama
Soltan
Middlebury College
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eng
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LIN.THEOR
Theoretical linguistics
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The study of Arabic dialects has been an important and rich area of research over the past thirty-five years or so, with significant implications for modern linguistic analysis. The current volume builds on this tradition with ten scholarly contributions that provide novel data and analyses in multiple areas of Arabic linguistics: Syntax and its interfaces; regional and sociolinguistic variation; and first language acquisition. The linguistic facts in the volume are drawn from the various Arabic dialects spoken in North Africa, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, and Standard Arabic, and the analyses proposed reflect current approaches in linguistic theory. The volume, therefore, should be of interest to formal linguists, sociolinguists, historical linguists, dialectologists, as well as researchers on first language acquisition. It is our hope that the papers in this volume will spur more interest in and research on further aspects of Arabic linguistics.
05
For the Arabist reader, these papers will serve as groundbreaking work unifying detailed studies of Arabic with theoretically valuable discussion. For the general linguist, these papers provide a fine entry point to the Arabic specialist literature via empirically mature treatments of many different facets of the language.
Matthew A. Tucker, Oakland University, in Brill’s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 10 (2018)
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Introduction
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Stuart Davis
Davis, Stuart
Stuart
Davis
Indiana University
2
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Usama Soltan
Soltan, Usama
Usama
Soltan
Middlebury College
10
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sal.3.s1
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Part I: Syntax and its interfaces
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31
Article
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Locative prepositional phrases and inalienable PLACE in Lebanese Arabic*
1
A01
Lina Choueiri
Choueiri, Lina
Lina
Choueiri
American University of Beirut
20
Lebanese Arabic
20
lexical vs. functional prepositions
20
Locative PPs
20
null PLACE
01
In this paper, I investigate locative PPs in their locative meaning. Based on new empirical evidence from Lebanese Arabic, I propose that a rich constituent structure, which involves an inalienable PLACE noun in a part-whole relation with the ground DP, underlies the syntax of locative prepositions. The locative meaning of prepositions derives from the presence of this PLACE noun, which mostly remains phonologically null. I argue that Lebanese Arabic makes a formal distinction between functional and lexical prepositions, and that the observed differences between them can be attributed to the position they occupy in the rich structure of locatives. The proposed analysis is also discussed in light of recent literature on the architecture of PPs.
10
01
JB code
sal.3.02sol
35
57
23
Article
5
01
On the syntax of exceptive constructions in Egyptian Arabic*
1
A01
Usama Soltan
Soltan, Usama
Usama
Soltan
Middlebury College
20
connected exceptives
20
coordination
20
Egyptian Arabic
20
ellipsis
20
Free exceptives
01
The goal of this paper is twofold: First, it provides a descriptive account of the syntactic properties of Egyptian Arabic exceptive phrases headed by the particle <i>ʔillaa</i>. Second, it proposes an analysis of these syntactic properties in terms of Hoeksema’s (1987) seminal distinction between <i>connected exceptives</i> (CEs) and <i>free exceptives</i> (FEs). More specifically, CEs are argued to be coordinated DPs within a mono-clausal structure, whereas FEs are argued to be coordinated CPs which undergo ellipsis. The analysis is shown to account for the distribution of exceptive phrases in the language, and is supported by empirical facts related to cases of non-elliptical FEs, similarities with ellipsis phenomena, occurrence of speaker-oriented adverbials, and effects of the parallelism constraint on FEs.
10
01
JB code
sal.3.03ben
59
74
16
Article
6
01
Verbal and nominal plurals and the syntaxmorphology interface
1
A01
Elabbas Benmamoun
Benmamoun, Elabbas
Elabbas
Benmamoun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
20
Arabic
20
nominal plurals
20
syntax-morphology interface
20
Verbal plurals
01
One of the assumptions of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky, 1995, and subsequent work within the program) is the idea that (narrow) syntactic derivations are driven by the interaction between formal features. However, one key aspect of formal features that drives their syntactic activity is the lack of interpretability. Thus, non-interpretable agreement features on temporal and verbal heads must be paired with interpretable matching features on nominal elements such as subjects and objects. There is compelling morpho-phonological evidence from Arabic that this dichotomy is plausible and has far reaching consequences for the syntax-morphology interface. The critical argument comes from cases of nominal and verbal plurals where the plural feature is spelled-out differently depending on whether it is interpretable or non-interpretable on its immediate host.
10
01
JB code
sal.3.04hel
75
97
23
Article
7
01
Exploring the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic
1
A01
Sam Hellmuth
Hellmuth, Sam
Sam
Hellmuth
University of York
20
Arabic
20
intonation
20
phrasing
20
prosody
20
sandhi
01
Despite an abundance of research on Arabic syntax and phonology as separate domains, there is as yet relatively little research at the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic. This paper begins by providing an overview of what we know so far, in an effort to identify reasons for the lack of work at the interface to date. The paper then presents a review of prior work on the syntax-phonology mapping in Egyptian Arabic (EA) – set in the context of developments in the wider syntaxphonology literature – in order to show that interface work requires expertise in both phonetics/phonology and syntax. Some early results are then presented from a pilot study which compares for the first time the basic syntaxphonology mapping patterns in two dialects of Arabic – EA, and Jordanian Arabic (JA) – and explores whether dialect-internal, inter-speaker variation, previously observed in EA, is also found in JA.
10
01
JB code
sal.3.05kha
99
120
22
Article
8
01
A salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative hāk as used in oral narratives*
A
salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative hāk as used in oral narratives*
1
A01
Amel Khalfaoui
Khalfaoui, Amel
Amel
Khalfaoui
University of Oklahoma
20
cognitive status
20
demonstratives
20
discourse analysis
20
discourse salience
20
Relevance Theory
20
Tunisian Arabic
01
This paper reports on a study of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative <i>hāk, </i>which encodes the cognitive status FAMILIAR, in the sense of the Givenness Hierarchy of Gundel et al. (1993). Although this demonstrative is usually used for at most FAMILIAR, it is frequently used in folk tales for the statuses ACTIVATED and IN FOCUS. I propose that this is a strategy used by the narrator to impose more processing effort on the hearer in order increase the relative salience of the referent of <i>hāk</i>. However, the degree of relative salience to which these entities are promoted is not always the same, and has to do with the centrality of the referent of <i>hāk </i>in the story.
10
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JB code
sal.3.s2
Section header
9
01
Part II: Arabic Linguistic Variation
10
01
JB code
sal.3.06hac
123
150
28
Article
10
01
Moroccan artists ‘blacklisted’
Dialect loyalty and gendered national identity in an age of digital discourse*
1
A01
Atiqa Hachimi
Hachimi, Atiqa
Atiqa
Hachimi
University of Toronto
20
Facebook
20
gender
20
Metalanguage
20
Moroccan Arabic
20
national identity
01
This paper explores contestation in digital metalinguistic discourse from the perspective of the Maghreb-Mashreq language ideology – the unequal relationship between North African and Middle Eastern vernacular Arabic varieties. Specifically, the paper examines a Facebook page dedicated to the ‘Blacklisting’ of Moroccan artists who converge to Mashreqi Arabic varieties in pan-Arab encounters through examining these artists’ communicative practices and argues that the Blacklist Facebook is a discursive site that works to demand national dialect loyalty, especially from female cultural figures. However, the anxieties and language ideological debates made explicit on the Facebook page are not exclusively about language; more broadly, they unravel the complex relationships between communicative practice, morality, and today’s conceptualizations of Moroccan national identity.
10
01
JB code
sal.3.07alw
151
169
19
Article
11
01
Lateral fricative ḍād in Tihāmat Qaḥtān
A quantitative sociolinguistic investigation
1
A01
Enam Al-Wer
Al-Wer, Enam
Enam
Al-Wer
University of Essex
2
A01
Khairia Al-Qahtani
Al-Qahtani, Khairia
Khairia
Al-Qahtani
University of Essex
20
lateral fricative
20
merger
20
sociolinguistics
20
southern Arabia
20
variation
01
This article presents the results of a sociolinguistic investigation of the phonemic status of the emphatic lateral fricative [ɮʕ] in the dialects of Tihamat Qah<i>̣</i>tān, Saudi Arabia<i>. </i>The study is based on empirical data, obtained through sociolinguistic interviews, analyzed quantitatively, and correlated with age, gender, locality and linguistic environment. The statistical analysis reveals that (i), while the lateral fricative is used in considerable proportion, it is undergoing change to emphatic interdental [ðʕ]; (ii), many speakers use the lateralized variant in historically *ðʕ items, which suggests that while both sounds are present in the phonemic inventory of these dialects, they are treated as allophones of a single phonological unit; this result also suggests that the lateral variant has social meaning.
10
01
JB code
sal.3.08fre
171
185
15
Article
12
01
Arabic ȷ̌ and the class of Sun Letters
A historical and dialectological perspective
1
A01
Aaron Freeman
Freeman, Aaron
Aaron
Freeman
University of Pennsylvania*
20
consonant place
20
definite article
20
dialectology
20
jiim
20
phonology
01
This article examines the interaction between Arabic definite article assimilation to coronals and the realization of <i>ȷ�</i> across dialects. Three contrasting grammatical patterns were identified: (1) <i>ȷ�</i> does not trigger assimilation, (2) coronal <i>ȷ�</i> triggers assimilation, and (3) velar <i>g < ȷ�</i> optionally triggers assimilation. Historical evidence indicates that velar, palatal, and prepalatal variants of <i>ȷ�</i> have coexisted since Old Arabic, while (3) arose from (2) in urban Egyptian Arabic from late generalization of the velar variant<i>.</i> I further propose that an underlyingly palatal, rather than velar, variant underlies the peninsular Arabian dialects with pattern (1), and that pattern (2) emerged in Old Arabic from phonological reanalysis of fronted <i>ȷ�</i> as coronal.
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Quantifying lexical and pronunciation variation between three Arabic varieties*
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Mahmoud Abunasser
Abunasser, Mahmoud
Mahmoud
Abunasser
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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A01
Elabbas Benmamoun
Benmamoun, Elabbas
Elabbas
Benmamoun
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Arabic dialectology
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Computational measures of linguistic variation
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Lexical elicitation
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linguistic distance between Arabic varietie
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This paper reports on computational measures of linguistic variation that quantify the lexical and pronunciation variation between three varieties of Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, and Gulf Arabic. We provide three measures of linguistic variation; all computed based on elicitation of the Swadesh list. The first measure is the lexical variation based on the percentage of noncognate words. The second is another lexical measure that takes into account a pronunciation aspect by considering the IPA transcription of the same word list. The third is a pronunciation measure that computes the variation of the IPA transcription of the cognate words in the Swadesh list. The results of the three measures show that geographically proximate languages are also linguistically closer to each other.
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Part III: First Language Acquisition
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sal.3.10abd
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236
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Article
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Compensatory lengthening
Evidence from child Arabic
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Eman Abdoh
Abdoh, Eman
Eman
Abdoh
King Abdulaziz University – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Arabic
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C-lengthening
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compensatory V-lengthening
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word minimality
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This paper examines compensatory lengthening (henceforth CL) in child Hijazi Arabic within the framework of prosodic theory and moraic theory to see if children acquiring Arabic use CL in case of coda/vowel deletion. On the basis of cross-sectional and semi-longitudinal data collected from 20 children aged from 1;3 to 2;0, the study describes and analyzes two CL types, V-lengthening and C-lengthening, providing a mora-based analysis and examining adjacency and directionality factors. The study provides cross-linguistic evidence for the existence of CL in child Arabic. The subjects use CL early (1;3) and arguably follow a universal path in this respect. Their productions display moraic conservation, sensitivity to bimoraicity and word minimality. They also show a preference for left-to-right directionality in CL.
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Article
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