Phonological Assimilation in Urban Jordanian Arabic

This study reports patterns of phonological assimilation in consonant clusters in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA). We examine all possible C1C2 combinations across a word boundary as well as the concatenations of consonant-final prefixes //in/ and //il/ and consonant-initial stems. The data show that p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zuraiq, Wael, Zhang, Jie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 2006-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1229