Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XXXIV : papers form the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020 / edited by Mahmoud Azaz.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS (2020: TUCS

Contributor:

ʻAzzāz, Maḥmūd, editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Conference Name:

Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (34th : 2020 : Tucson, Ariz.), creator.

Series:

Studies in Arabic Linguistics Ser. ; v.12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arabic language--Congresses.

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Grammar--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023.

Contents:

Intro

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Recent trends in Arabic linguistics

2. Papers in this volume in detail

2.1 Phonetics and phonology

2.2 Syntax, semantics, & morphology and the interfaces

2.3 Language acquisition, language contact, and diglossia

3. Closing remarks

4. Note on transcription

References

Part I. Phonetics and phonology

Towards an account of historical new-dialect formation in northern Africa: The case of sibilant merging in Arabic dialects

1. Introduction

2. Sibilant merging in Arabic dialects

3. The origins of sibilant merging

4. Towards an account of historical new-dialect formation in North Africa

5. Conclusion

Generational changes in VOT in Qatari Arabic

2. Background

2.1 VOT and aspiration in languages

2.2 The Qatari dialect of Arabic

2.3 Urbanization and dialect development

3. Current study

4. Method

4.1 Participants

4.2 Materials

4.3 Procedure

4.4 Acoustic analysis

5. Results

5.1 Data analysis

5.2 Effects of stop and vowel category

5.3 Effects of speaker age and social group

5.4 Interactions

5.5 Relationship between VOT and years of age

6. Discussion and conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendix A. List of Qatari Arabic words

Production and perception of consonant clusters in nonwords by Southern Iraqi and Najdi Speakers

2. Current study

3. Methods

3.1 Participants

3.2 Stimuli

3.3 Perception: AX discrimination task

3.4 Production: Reading task

3.5 Procedure

3.6 Perception: AX discrimination task

3.7 Production: Reading task

4. Results

4.1 Perception: AX discrimination task

4.2 Production: Reading task

4.3 Production and perception relationship

5. Discussion and conclusion

Appendix A. Perception stimuli

Appendix B. Production stimuli

Are Arabic listeners "stress deaf" to their own L2 pronunciation?

2. Background: Perception of L2 stress and L1 prosodic properties

2.1 The role of L1 in L2 stress perception

2.2 Prosodic properties of stress in English and Arabic

3. The present study

3.1 Experimental investigation of the perception of English stress by Arabic speakers

3.2 Participants

3.3 Stimuli: Structure

3.4 Stimuli: Recording

3.5 Stimuli: Selection

3.6 Stimuli: Acoustic properties

3.7 Perception task procedure

3.8 Data analysis

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

Appendix A.

Part II. Syntax, semantics, morphology and the interfaces

Morphological case, x-agreement, and overt movement interactions in Arabic grammar

1. Introduction

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Jan 23th, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

2. Morphological case, x-agreement, and movement interactions

Other Format:

Print version: Azaz, Mahmoud Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV

ISBN:

902725494X

9789027254948

Publisher Number:

99995728681

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