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846016769 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SAL 3 Eb 15 9789027267016 06 10.1075/sal.3 13 2014023415 DG 002 02 01 SAL 02 2212-8042 Studies in Arabic Linguistics 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013</Subtitle> 01 sal.3 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/sal.3 1 B01 Stuart Davis Davis, Stuart Stuart Davis Indiana University, Bloomington 2 B01 Usama Soltan Soltan, Usama Usama Soltan Middlebury College 01 eng 256 xvii 238 LAN009000 v.2006 CF 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.AFAS Afro-Asiatic languages 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 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) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/sal.3.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027200310.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027200310.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/sal.3.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/sal.3.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/sal.3.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/sal.3.hb.png 10 01 JB code sal.3.001ack ix 1 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acknowledgements</TitleText> 10 01 JB code sal.3.002int xi xvii 7 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 1 A01 Stuart Davis Davis, Stuart Stuart Davis Indiana University 2 A01 Usama Soltan Soltan, Usama Usama Soltan Middlebury College 10 01 JB code sal.3.s1 Section header 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I: Syntax and its interfaces</TitleText> 10 01 JB code sal.3.01cho 3 33 31 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Locative prepositional phrases and inalienable PLACE in Lebanese Arabic&#42;</TitleText> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">On the syntax of exceptive constructions in Egyptian Arabic&#42;</TitleText> 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>&#660;illaa</i>. Second, it proposes an analysis of these syntactic properties in terms of Hoeksema&#8217;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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Verbal and nominal plurals and the syntaxmorphology interface</TitleText> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Exploring the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic</TitleText> 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) &#8211; set in the context of developments in the wider syntaxphonology literature &#8211; 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 &#8211; EA, and Jordanian Arabic (JA) &#8211; 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative h&#257;k as used in oral narratives&#42;</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative h&#257;k as used in oral narratives&#42;</TitleWithoutPrefix> 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>h&#257;k, </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>h&#257;k</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>h&#257;k </i>in the story. 10 01 JB code sal.3.s2 Section header 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II: Arabic Linguistic Variation</TitleText> 10 01 JB code sal.3.06hac 123 150 28 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Moroccan artists &#8216;blacklisted&#8217;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Dialect loyalty and gendered national identity in an age of digital discourse&#42;</Subtitle> 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 &#8211; the unequal relationship between North African and Middle Eastern vernacular Arabic varieties. Specifically, the paper examines a Facebook page dedicated to the &#8216;Blacklisting&#8217; of Moroccan artists who converge to Mashreqi Arabic varieties in pan-Arab encounters through examining these artists&#8217; 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&#8217;s conceptualizations of Moroccan national identity. 10 01 JB code sal.3.07alw 151 169 19 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lateral fricative d&#803;&#257;d in Tih&#257;mat Qah&#803;t&#257;n</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A quantitative sociolinguistic investigation</Subtitle> 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 [&#622;&#661;] in the dialects of Tihamat Qah<i>&#803;</i>t&#257;n, 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 [&#240;&#661;]; (ii), many speakers use the lateralized variant in historically &#42;&#240;&#661; 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Arabic &#567;&#780; and the class of Sun Letters</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A historical and dialectological perspective</Subtitle> 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>&#567;&#65533;</i> across dialects. Three contrasting grammatical patterns were identified: (1) <i>&#567;&#65533;</i> does not trigger assimilation, (2) coronal <i>&#567;&#65533;</i> triggers assimilation, and (3) velar <i>g &#60; &#567;&#65533;</i> optionally triggers assimilation. Historical evidence indicates that velar, palatal, and prepalatal variants of <i>&#567;&#65533;</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>&#567;&#65533;</i> as coronal. 10 01 JB code sal.3.09abu 187 212 26 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Quantifying lexical and pronunciation variation between three Arabic varieties&#42;</TitleText> 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. 10 01 JB code sal.3.s3 Section header 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III: First Language Acquisition</TitleText> 10 01 JB code sal.3.10abd 215 236 22 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Compensatory lengthening</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Evidence from child Arabic</Subtitle> 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. 10 01 JB code sal.3.11ind 237 238 2 Article 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20160726 2016 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027200310 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 125.00 EUR R 01 00 105.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 188.00 USD S 791016768 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code SAL 3 Hb 15 9789027200310 13 2014023415 BB 01 SAL 02 2212-8042 Studies in Arabic Linguistics 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVII</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013</Subtitle> 01 sal.3 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/sal.3 1 B01 Stuart Davis Davis, Stuart Stuart Davis Indiana University, Bloomington 2 B01 Usama Soltan Soltan, Usama Usama Soltan Middlebury College 01 eng 256 xvii 238 LAN009000 v.2006 CF 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.AFAS Afro-Asiatic languages 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 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) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/sal.3.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027200310.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027200310.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/sal.3.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/sal.3.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/sal.3.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/sal.3.hb.png 10 01 JB code sal.3.001ack ix 1 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Acknowledgements</TitleText> 10 01 JB code sal.3.002int xi xvii 7 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 1 A01 Stuart Davis Davis, Stuart Stuart Davis Indiana University 2 A01 Usama Soltan Soltan, Usama Usama Soltan Middlebury College 10 01 JB code sal.3.s1 Section header 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I: Syntax and its interfaces</TitleText> 10 01 JB code sal.3.01cho 3 33 31 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Locative prepositional phrases and inalienable PLACE in Lebanese Arabic&#42;</TitleText> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">On the syntax of exceptive constructions in Egyptian Arabic&#42;</TitleText> 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>&#660;illaa</i>. Second, it proposes an analysis of these syntactic properties in terms of Hoeksema&#8217;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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Verbal and nominal plurals and the syntaxmorphology interface</TitleText> 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Exploring the syntax-phonology interface in Arabic</TitleText> 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) &#8211; set in the context of developments in the wider syntaxphonology literature &#8211; 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 &#8211; EA, and Jordanian Arabic (JA) &#8211; 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative h&#257;k as used in oral narratives&#42;</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">salience-based analysis of the Tunisian Arabic demonstrative h&#257;k as used in oral narratives&#42;</TitleWithoutPrefix> 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>h&#257;k, </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>h&#257;k</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>h&#257;k </i>in the story. 10 01 JB code sal.3.s2 Section header 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II: Arabic Linguistic Variation</TitleText> 10 01 JB code sal.3.06hac 123 150 28 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Moroccan artists &#8216;blacklisted&#8217;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Dialect loyalty and gendered national identity in an age of digital discourse&#42;</Subtitle> 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 &#8211; the unequal relationship between North African and Middle Eastern vernacular Arabic varieties. Specifically, the paper examines a Facebook page dedicated to the &#8216;Blacklisting&#8217; of Moroccan artists who converge to Mashreqi Arabic varieties in pan-Arab encounters through examining these artists&#8217; 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&#8217;s conceptualizations of Moroccan national identity. 10 01 JB code sal.3.07alw 151 169 19 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Lateral fricative d&#803;&#257;d in Tih&#257;mat Qah&#803;t&#257;n</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A quantitative sociolinguistic investigation</Subtitle> 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 [&#622;&#661;] in the dialects of Tihamat Qah<i>&#803;</i>t&#257;n, 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 [&#240;&#661;]; (ii), many speakers use the lateralized variant in historically &#42;&#240;&#661; 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 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Arabic &#567;&#780; and the class of Sun Letters</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A historical and dialectological perspective</Subtitle> 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>&#567;&#65533;</i> across dialects. Three contrasting grammatical patterns were identified: (1) <i>&#567;&#65533;</i> does not trigger assimilation, (2) coronal <i>&#567;&#65533;</i> triggers assimilation, and (3) velar <i>g &#60; &#567;&#65533;</i> optionally triggers assimilation. Historical evidence indicates that velar, palatal, and prepalatal variants of <i>&#567;&#65533;</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>&#567;&#65533;</i> as coronal. 10 01 JB code sal.3.09abu 187 212 26 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Quantifying lexical and pronunciation variation between three Arabic varieties&#42;</TitleText> 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. 10 01 JB code sal.3.s3 Section header 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III: First Language Acquisition</TitleText> 10 01 JB code sal.3.10abd 215 236 22 Article 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Compensatory lengthening</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Evidence from child Arabic</Subtitle> 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. 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