Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI

Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, 2017

Editors

Amel Khalfaoui | University of Oklahoma

Youssef A. Haddad | University of Florida

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This volume brings together ten peer-reviewed articles on Arabic linguistics. The articles are distributed over three parts: phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and language acquisition. Including data from North African, Levantine, and Gulf varieties of Arabic, as well as Arabic varieties spoken in diaspora, these articles address issues that range from phonetic neutralization and diminutive formation to diglossia, dialect contact, and language acquisition in heritage speakers. The book is valuable reading for linguists in general and for those working on descriptive and theoretical aspects of Arabic linguistics in particular.

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 8] 2019. xiii, 264 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins

https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.8

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii

Incomplete phonetic neutralization: What Arabic can bring to the debate

Nancy Hall | pp. 1–30

Diminutive formation in a Libyan dialect with some phonological implications

Abdulhamid Gadoua and Stuart Davis | pp. 31–50

Diminutive and augmentative formation in northern Najdi/Ḥā’ili Arabic

Wafi Alshammari and Stuart Davis | pp. 51–74

Post-lexical strata: Evidence from phrasal phonology in Sudanese Arabic

Abdel-Khalig Ali | pp. 75–102

Part II. Sociolinguistics and pragmatics

Destabilizing Arabic diglossia? New media and translingual practice

Abdulrahman Alkhamees, Rasha Elabdali and Keith Walters | pp. 103–134

Dialect contact in the Tunisian diaspora: Chebba speakers in Mazara del Vallo (Sicily)

Luca D’Anna | pp. 135–158

Speaker-oriented attitude datives as authority indexicals: Evidence from family talk in the Syrian soap opera ba:b l-ħa:ra

Youssef A. Haddad | pp. 159–180

Generic expressions in Tunisian Arabic: Beyond the definite article al-

Amel Khalfaoui | pp. 181–204

Part III. Language acquisition

Palestinian Arabic dual formation in typically developing heritage speakers of Palestinian Arabic

Reem Khamis-Dakwar, May Ahmar and Karen Froud | pp. 205–234

Interactions between temporal acoustics and indexical information in speech rate perception

Yahya Aldholmi and Hanyong Park | pp. 235–262

Index | pp. 263–264

Subjects

Linguistics

Afro-Asiatic languages

Theoretical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF/2CSR: Linguistics/Arabic

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019457197 | Marc record