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Abd-El-Jawad, Hassan R. 1987. Cross-dialectal variation in Arabic: Competing prestigious forms. Language in Society 16 (3) : 359–367.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
dialect1 | language variety | prestige | sociolinguistics | standard1
Language as a subject
Arabic
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study discusses cross-dialectal variation in Arabic and in particular the existence of competing prestigious forms.