The main objective of this study is to describe the phonology of 9abady Arabic (9A), a Bedouin Jordanian dialect that has not been investigated before, and to provide an analysis in light of recent phonological theories (autosegmental phonology and feature geometry). The study i…
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This dissertation contributes to the field of Semitic linguistics by providing a formal analysis of the phonology and morphology of Tetouani Moroccan Arabic (TMA) within the framework of Lexical Phonology (LP), exploring the implications of the data for this theory. It is based …
This study is an attempt to address some problems in Arabic morphology and phonology which have serious consequences for morphological and phonological theories. As regards morphology, it is argued in contradistinction to orthodox treatments that roots and patterns are not appro…
This dissertation explores the phonology of Makkan Arabic at both the lexical and post-lexical levels employing Prince and Smolensky's Optimality Theory (OT) and Kiparsky's (2000) Stratal-OT. OT models the phonological grammar as a set of constraints which are ranked, violable a…
This study examined whether explicit instruction in phonetics and the phonologies of English and Arabic improved the sound production and recognition skills of adult native speakers of English learning Arabic as a foreign language. The study utilized an intervention strategy tha…
This dissertation is a quantitative study of linguistic variation in the Damascus speech community. The research material is based on data drawn from tape-recorded sociolinguistic interviews with 46 speakers, 23 men and 23 women, of different ages and educational backgrounds. Th…
Existing formal representations of Arabic emphatic and guttural sounds are ill-motivated articulatorily and suffer from descriptive and analytic inadequacies. This dissertation aims to clarify our understanding of the articulatory attributes of these sounds as reflected in their…
This study is primarily concerned with the phonology of one Moroccan Arabic dialect, spoken in and around Sefrou in the centre of Morocco. The main goal of this dissertation is to describe several aspects of the phonology and morphology of Moroccan Arabic in terms of autosegment…
Numerous studies of the acquisition of English phonology have been undertaken over the last century. However, studies of the acquisition of other languages also are needed to add to our knowledge about the order and ages at which phonemes are acquired and whether or not they are…
The present study is intended to investigate selected topics in the phonology of Jordanian Arabic (JA) within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). The phonological phenomena under investigation can be accounted for by a set of constraints on metrical organizations like sylla…
