Table of contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Part I.Phonetics and phonology
Incomplete phonetic neutralization: What Arabic can bring to the debate
3
Diminutive formation in a Libyan dialect with some phonological implications
31
Diminutive and augmentative formation in northern Najdi/Ḥā’ili Arabic
51
Post-lexical strata: Evidence from phrasal phonology in Sudanese Arabic
75
Part II.Sociolinguistics and pragmatics
Destabilizing Arabic diglossia? New media and translingual practice
105
Dialect contact in the Tunisian diaspora: Chebba speakers in Mazara del Vallo (sicily)
135
Speaker-oriented attitude datives as authority indexicals: Evidence from family talk in the Syrian soap opera ba:b l-ħa:ra
159
Generic expressions in Tunisian Arabic: Beyond the definite article al-
181
Part III.Language acquisition
Palestinian Arabic dual formation in typically developing heritage speakers of Palestinian Arabic
207
Interactions between temporal acoustics and indexical information in speech rate perception
235
Index
263
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