
Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation
Islam Youssef(Author)
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 9. November 2023
Book
Hardback
230 pages
978-90-272-1422-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 168 mm
Width: 250 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
564 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1422-5 (9789027214225)
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Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation
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