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The absence of the consonant sound /p/ in Libyan Arabic leads Libyan speakers of English to pronounce /p/ as /b/. This study examines how Libyan Arabic speakers distinguish the English /p/ and /b/ in their production of L2 English. The study also examines the effect of the produ…

This is a dissertation concerning historical/comparative linguistics applied to Mongolian ("applied comparative Indo-European linguistics"). Like pre-Old Irish or proto-Armenian *p, pMo. *p- is a peculiar problem in comparative reconstruction. Chapter I introduces the problem fr…

This dissertation offers for the first time an extensive scholarly translation of an anthology of 106 ginans (sacred hymns) attributed to the Isma'ili saint-composer, Pir Shams. The Ginan tradition is a sacred corpus of devotional poetry belonging to a sub-sect of the Shiah Musl…