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On the usefulness and limits of a geographic perspective in dialectology: Arabic and Berber examples
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Catherine Taine-Cheikh
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March 13, 2012
Abstract
Spoken Arabic and Berber show great variety in their pronunciation, as evidenced by dialectology studies. Some researchers have attempted to illustrate this variety using maps of the data collected. In this article, my goal will be to commend their work, but also to highlight the difficulties which arise when a purely geographic perspective is adopted. The choice of discriminant in relation to the possible variation mechanisms will also be broached, as, for the languages under study, spatial dissemination only partially explains the linguistic differences and similarities.
Published Online: 2012-03-13
Published in Print: 2012-03
© by Akademie Verlag, Levallois-Perret, Germany
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Keywords for this article
Arabic;
Berber;
linguistic geography;
sociolinguistics;
historical dialectology
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