Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part I. Phonetics and phonology
6. Incomplete phonetic neutralization 3
7. Diminutive formation in a Libyan dialect with some phonological implications 31
8. Diminutive and augmentative formation in northern Najdi/Ḥā’ili Arabic 51
9. Post-lexical strata 75
10. Part II. Sociolinguistics and pragmatics
11. Destabilizing Arabic diglossia? 105
12. Dialect contact in the Tunisian diaspora 135
13. Speaker-oriented attitude datives as authority indexicals 159
14. Generic expressions in Tunisian Arabic 181
15. Part III. Language acquisition
16. Palestinian Arabic dual formation in typically developing heritage speakers of Palestinian Arabic 207
17. Interactions between temporal acoustics and indexical information in speech rate perception 235
18. Index 263