Emirati Arabic

Leung, Tommi Tsz-Cheung; Ntelitheos, Dimitrios; Kaabi, Meera Al

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“…(4) Sharjah a. gāl-l-ah aki ʕaṣā-k say.PFV.3MSG-DAT-PRO.3MSG PRT.F stick-PRO.3MSG "He said to him: 'Here [is] your stick'" b. aku bēt-hum mawǧūd PRT.M house-PRO.3PL present "There [is] their house; [it is still] there" 1 According to Qafisheh (1977: 201-202), "the Kuwaiti negative forms kān aku and kaan māku (or ma kān aku) … are used rarely in Abu Dhabi." Leung, Ntelitheos, and Al Kaabi (2021) do not report it.…”

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AIDA Granada: A Pomegranate of Arabic Varieties

2024

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AIDA Granada: A Pomegranate of Arabic Varieties

2024

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“…Nonetheless, it is virtually impossible to find clear instances of non-application of affrication due to any consistent phonological influence, and Johnstone (1963) and Holes (1995) are careful to note that the identified regularities do not categorically determine the presence or absence of the affricate. Overall, k-affrication and dZ-lenition thus appear to be unrelated processes which escape rigid phonological descriptions, and their variants are sometimes simply characterised as occurring in free variation (Leung et al 2020).…”

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“…Both the voiced and the voiceless postalveolar affricates are used in EA. Although grammars attest that the voiced plosive variant is still a possible realisation of OA [g] in the dialect (Leung et al 2020), it is virtually absent from the speech of modern Emirati natives. For example, a cursory search of the EA corpus EMAC (Halefom et al 2012) reveals that out of all 1,935 tokens with a target /g/, only 39 (0.2%) surfaced with the plosive.…”

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Phonological conditioning of affricate variability in Emirati Arabic

Szreder¹,

Derrick²

2023

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This study investigates the conditioning effects of neighbouring consonants on the realisation of the phonemes /k/ and /dʒ/ in Emirati Arabic (EA), which are optionally realised as [tʃ] and [j], respectively. Based on previous accounts of EA and other Gulf Arabic (GA) dialects, we set out to test the prediction that proximity of other, phonetically similar coronal (COR) obstruents [COR, −son, −cont] and coronal postalveolar fricatives [COR, −ant] inhibit the surface realisation of the affricate variants of these phonemes. We examine elicitation data from twenty young female native speakers of EA, using stimuli with the target segment in the presence of a similar neighbour, as compared to words with the neighbour at a longer distance or with another coronal consonant. The results point to an asymmetry in the behaviour of the voiced and voiceless targets, such that the predicted inhibitory effect is confirmed for the voiced, but not the voiceless target. We argue that this finding, coupled with a consideration of the intra-participant and lexical trends in the data, is compatible with an approach that treats the two processes as being at different stages of development, where the [k∼tʃ] alternation is a completed phonemic change, while the [dʒ∼j] alternation is a synchronic phonological process.

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“…This personal index is essentially formed by a prefix in the imperfective and a suffix in the perfective. Most syntactic descriptions of Arabic devote a few chapters to phrasal dependency, and some such as Feghali (1928), Woidich (2006), Holes (2016) and Leung and al. (2021) provide fairly in-depth studies of several types of embedded sentences.…”

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From embedded propositions to complex predicates

Taine-Cheikh

2022

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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This article examines verbal sequences in Arabic dialects which can correspond either to complex sentences with embedded clauses or to complex predicates with reduction of one or the other verb. The first part is devoted to complex sentences where completives and subordinates of purpose and consequence are introduced by a marker that is generally specific, but sometimes polyfunctional. The second part explores embedding without a subordinator (with distinct or identical subjects), as well as with cases of complex predicates, sometimes with reduction of V1 (cases of auxiliarization and pragmatization), sometimes of V2 (rare cases of serial verbs).

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Emirati Arabic

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AIDA Granada: A Pomegranate of Arabic Varieties

AIDA Granada: A Pomegranate of Arabic Varieties

Phonological conditioning of affricate variability in Emirati Arabic

From embedded propositions to complex predicates

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