There has been an increase in interest among researchers in the study of loanword phonology, but only limited studies have been carried out on the phonology of English loanwords in Arabic. Thus, there is a need for more linguistic studies to shed light on the borrowing of Englis…
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The Arabic plural system is of great linguistic interest due to its diversity, complexity, and resistance to classification. Arabic is a non-concatenative language that applies a masculine and feminine suffix plural, a dual, and a "broken plural" to mark number. The broken plura…
The dissertation study aims to contribute mainly to the field of loanword phonology in general and particularly to Indonesian and its phonology that are rarely studied to date. The study investigates what consonantal and syllabic repair strategies are employed by Indonesian in a…
The current study investigated the realization for the English voiceless postalveolar affricate /t[esh]/ in Najdi Saudi ESL learners' production. The goal of the study was to investigate whether Najdi Saudi ESL learners have difficulties in pronouncing /t[esh]/. Both linguistic …
The central goal of this dissertation is to explore the relative perceptibility of vowel epenthesis in English onset clusters by second language learners whose native language is averse to onset clusters. The dissertation examines how audible vowel epenthesis in different onset …
This study investigated the production of the English voiceless bilabial stop /p/ in three word positions (initial, medial, and final). By a group of 20 male and female ESL Saudi Arabian learners in the United States. The stimulus of this work was a list of 20 English words with…
This thesis examines syllable structure in Qassimi Arabic (QA), a Najdi dialect spoken in Al-Qassim region in Saudi Arabia. Syllable-related phenomena in QA have not been fully addressed and understood because QA has not received attention in the available literature on syllable…
This study aims to examine the developmental acquisition trends of English nasal /η/ by Saudi learners of English. According to the previous literature, the velar nasal /η/ presents significant difficulties for learners of English, especially for Arabic speakers. The literature …
This is a morphophonological study of noun plurality in Jebbali, a Modern South Arabian language spoken in the mountains and coastal plains of Dhofar, Oman. It has a twofold goal: (1) it documents the diverse shapes of noun plurals in Jebbali and (2) provides a formal analysis o…
The present study investigates how information about contrasts is employed in the grammar. It is proposed that contrast preservation exists as an independent principle, which, within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993), is formalized as a family of ran…
Pharyngeal consonants, low back vowels, segments with secondary pharyngealization, and vowels with retracted tongue root positions all involve some constriction in the pharynx. But there is no consensus among phoneticians and phonologists about how to describe these actions and …
In this dissertation I propose a rank-ordering model of EVAL. This model differs from classic OT as follows: In classic OT, EVAL distinguishes the best candidate from the losers, but does not distinguish between different losers. I argue that EVAL imposes a harmonic rank-orderin…
Phonological acquisition is a topic that has fascinated researchers trying to solve the puzzle of how children learn to talk. A review of the literature provides a large body of information about the acquisition of English phonology. The study of Portuguese phonology is a rapidl…
L'intelligence ne se nourrit pas de responses mais de questions.--Albert Einstein Dans cette these, nous examinons un aspect fondamental de la phonologie et de la morphologie du wolof, une langue ouest africaine parlee principalement au Senegal et en Gambie, soit celui des alter…
Instantiative Phonology presents a model of grammatical organization whose conceptual orientation arises from the Communication System Hypothesis, the notion that natural languages are communication systems and as such have properties predicted by the Mathematical Theory of Comm…
A great deal of current work in phonology discusses the functional grounding of phonological patterns. This dissertation proposes that functional factors can motivate phonological constraints in two ways. ‘Functionally grounded’ constraints are induced from learners' immediate l…
This thesis discusses some phonological facts about Emirati Arabic, which is an Arabic variety spoken in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the gulf countries. It includes a description of the phonology component: consonants and vowels. The main focus of this thesis is on th…
The intent of the present course of inquiry is to examine historical Persian phonology in light of advances in Optimality Theory (OT) as applied to language change and variation, and in doing so to present a historical reconstruction of Proto-Modern-Persian (henceforth Proto-Per…