The Typology of Pharyngealization in Arabic Dialects Focusing on a Rural Jordanian Variety

Al-Raba’a, Basem Ibrahim Malawi; Davis, Stuart

doi:10.22425/jul.2020.21.2.1

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“…On this basis, it is uncontroversial that emphasis spread can apply in one or both directions in Arabic; however, the directionality of this process, its blockers and its maximal domain of application may vary among Arabic vernaculars. Its domain can be the adjacent vowels, the syllable, the morpheme, or the (phonological) word (Herzallah, 1990;Younes 1991;Davis 1995;Zawaydeh, 1999;Al-Masri 2010;Alhammad 2014;Jaber et al 2019, Al-Raba'a & Davis 2020. The current study empirically investigates the maximal domain of emphasis spread in RJA in tri-syllabic bimorphemic words.…”

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The Domain of Emphasis Spreading in Rural Jordanian Arabic

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Jaradat

Yassin

et al. 2022

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Emphasis spread has been empirically investigated in a number of Arabic vernaculars. Previous accounts of its (non-)application indicate that its domain varies across dialects, ranging from the adjacent vowels to the syllable, to the morpheme, and finally to the (phonological) word. This research paper, which contains an experiment analyzing data from 14 native speakers of Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA) spoken in Irbid, explores the domain of emphasis spread in this sub-variety, which is an understudied dialect. The results show that emphasis spread is not sensitive to the adjacent vowels or the syllable, but rather to the morpheme type; that is, it applies to suffixes and proclitics, but not to clitics, unless the source of emphasis is very close to the target clitic. Following Selkirk (1996) and consistent with Jaradat (2018), we propose a prosodic account to emphasize spread in RJA: proclitics and suffixes are prosodically integrated into the host stem, and therefore they allow emphasis spread. On the contrary, clitics are prosodically free. Hence, the prosodic word boundary between a stem and a clitic blocks emphasis spread from the stem onto the clitic, unless the source of emphasis is too close to the target clitic. This implies that the domain of emphasis spread is not only dialect-specific, but may also differ among the sub-varieties of one Arabic dialect.

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The Domain of Emphasis Spreading in Rural Jordanian Arabic

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Jaradat

Yassin

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Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation

Youssef

2023

Studies in Arabic Linguistics

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This book is a phonological investigation of place assimilation phenomena in two major Arabic dialects: Cairene Egyptian and Baghdadi Iraqi. The studied phenomena involve interactions between consonants (various types of local assimilation), between vowels (monophthongization), or between consonants and vowels (emphasis spread and labialization). Throughout the content chapters, the patterns for each of these processes are carefully described and validated by ample data, and then analyzed representationally using a minimalist model of feature geometry. The analysis follows a holistic approach, as the representations are consistently used for all the segmental phenomena within a dialect. The first exclusive treatment of place assimilation in colloquial Arabic, this book will be of particular interest to scholars and advanced students of Arabic linguistics and dialectology, and to phonologists in general, and can be a point of reference for researchers examining the details of such phenomena in other dialects of Arabic as well.

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The Typology of Pharyngealization in Arabic Dialects Focusing on a Rural Jordanian Variety

Cited by 18 publications

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The Domain of Emphasis Spreading in Rural Jordanian Arabic

The Domain of Emphasis Spreading in Rural Jordanian Arabic

Studies in Arabic Linguistics

Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation

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