Phonological Variation in Syrian Arabic

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Discourse and Syntactic Perspectives
6. Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic 9
7. Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic 47
8. Case Properties of Nominalization DPs in Classical Arabic 69
9. II. Morphological Perspectives
10. Underspecification of Lexical Entries for Arabic Verbs 93
11. Plural Formation in Arabic 123
12. Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic 147
13. The Suppletive Imperative of Arabic “Come” 173
14. III. Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives
15. On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects 191
16. Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony 215
17. Phonological Variation in Syrian Arabic 239
18. IV. Perspectives on the Acquisition of Arabic
19. Arabic Speakers and Parasitic Gaps 273
20. Stress Prosody and Speech Segmentation 283
21. Index of Subjects 293