Vowel unpredictability in Hijazi Arabic monosyllabic verbs
We study the distribution of vowels in the monosyllabic verbs of Urban Hijazi Arabic, showing that speakers use the presence of a root emphatic consonant to partially predict the quality of stem vowels. The effect of the emphatic is observed in the lexicon, and is productively extended to nonce verb...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/814 |