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• Arabic language—Congresses [Browse]

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• Boudelaa, Sami [Browse]

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• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 266. [More in this series]
• Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 266 [More in this series]

Summary note

The papers in this volume are a selection from papers presented at the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held in Cambridge, UK, in 2002. They deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in varieties of Arabic.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XVI PAPERS FROM THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS, CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 2002
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PREFACE
• THE ORGANIZATION OF THE LEXICON IN ARABIC AND OTHER SEMITIC LANGUAGES
• 1. Introduction
• 2. First Study
• 2.1 The results
• 3. Reading
• 4. Second Study
• 5. Matrices, Etymons, Radicals
• 6. Semantic Organization
• 7. Conclusions
• REFERENCES
• THE PLURAL OF PAUCITY IN ARABIC AND ITS ACTUAL SCOPE ON TWO CLAIMS BY SIIBAWAYHI AND AL-FARRAA'
• 2. PP in Arabic
• 3. Parallels in the Semitic Languages?
• 4. The Terms for PP in Arabic
• 5. Patterns for Arabic PP according to Siibawayhi
• 6. Interest in Siibawayhi's Description of PP
• 7. Other Arab Grammarians' Attitudes before the Notion of PP
• 7.1 Al-Mubarrad,(ob. 998)
• 7.2 az-Zamaxsharii (ob. 1144)
• 7.3 Ibn al-PAnbaarii (ob. 1183)
• 7.4 Ibn ʕAqiil(ob. 1375)
• 8. Today's Scope
• 9. The Opinion of Shawqii Dayf
• 10. My Own Views and Figures
• 10.1 Statistical Evidence from the Mu4allaqaat
• 11. PP's Possible Connection to Agreement Facts: Al-farraa's claim
• WHY THERE IS NO KOINÉ IN SANS AAP, YEMEN
• 1. The Problem
• 2. Reasons for Predicting Koinéization in Sanʕaa?
• 3. Data Sources
• 4. Evidence for the Lack of a Koiné
• 5. Some Analysis
• 5.1 Half the people in Sanʕaa? are not permanent residents
• 5.2 The Sanʕaanis are the largest single group in Sanʕaa?
• 5.3 The Sanʕaanis are very proud of their identity and dialect.
• 5.4 Two competing dialect systems are in place in Yemen's cities,excluding Hudaydah.
• 5.4.1 Feature conflict #7, the future markers
• 5.4.2 Feature conflict #2, q/g versus j/g
• 5.5 Taʕini/Aderii dialect speakers think the Sanʕaani dialect is strange.
• 5.6 The conservative linguistic role of women in Yemeni society
• 6. Dialect Changes Point to Divergence, Not Convergence
• 6.1 The Sanʕaani future marker
• 6.2 The use of baa replacing sha in the southern governorates
• 7. Conclusion
• EMPTY NUCLEI IN ARABIC SPEECH PATTERNS AND THEDIACRITIC SUKUUN
• 0. Introduction: The sukuun nucleus
• 1. Phonological Activity of sukuun Nuclei
• 2. Duration: The phonetics of sukuun
• 3. Applicability to ASR and TTS
• REPRESENTING COARTICUL ATION PROCESSES IN ARABIC SPEECH
• 0. Introduction: The corpus and the acoustic data
• 1. Directionality in Nasal Assimilation and Pharyngeal Spreading
• 2. A Phonological Account of Bi-directionality
• THE TEXTUAL COMPONENT IN CLASSICAL ARABIC INVESTIGATING INFORMATION STRUCTURE
• 1.1 The informant
• 2. Aljurjani's Model
• 3. The Model of Analysis: Halliday's information structure
• 4. The Analysis of Arabic
• 4.1 Interrogative sentences
• 4.2 Negative sentences
• 4.3 Declarative sentences
• 4.4 Preposing and postposing
• 4.5 Initial focal/non-focal nouns
• 5. Indefinite Nouns as Themes
• 5.1 Declaratives
• 6. Conclusion
• ACOUSTIC AND AUDITORY DIFFERENCES IN THE /t/-/t/OPPOSITION IN MALE AND FEMALE SPEAKERS OF JORDANIAN ARABIC
• 2. The Correlation of Emphasis
• 3. The Acoustics of Emphasis
• 4. Acoustic and Other Evidence for the Articulation of Emphatic and Plain Consonants
• 5. Multiple Cues and Auditory Enhancement.
• 6. The Sociophonetics of Emphasis
• 7. Methods
• 7.1 Hypotheses
• 7.2 Data
• 7.3 Speakers
• 7.4 Analysis
• 8. Results
• 8.1 Perceptual rating
• 8.2 Formant onset frequencies
• 8.3 Voice Onset Time
• 9. Discussion of Results
• 10. Conclusion
• PHARYNGEALIZATIONEFFECTS IN MALTESE ARABIC
• 1. Introduction.
• 2. Maltese Data
• 2.1 Pharyngealization in non-standard Maltese
• 2.2 Previous documentation of pharyngealization in Standard Maltese
• 2.3 Corpus information on Standard Maltese
• 2.4 Maltese Guttural Dissimilation
• 3. Feature Geometric Representations
• 3.1 The RTR/CP Model
• 3.2 The Dorsal/RTR Model
• 3.3 The ATR/RTR Model
• 4. Conclusion
• INDEX OF SUBJECTS
• The series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

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• Perspectives on Arabic linguistics sixteen

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713010250

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