Full Description
The present volume presents cutting-edge research on Arabic linguistics. It features a set of papers which continue a long tradition of seeking new explanations for familiar or previously undiscovered structural patterns. While the papers illustrate a range of approaches, from formalist to functionalist, each paper combines rigorous analysis of a set of Arabic data within the context of explicit models of some aspect of human language. The volume consists of three sections, the first section devoted to phonetics and phonology, the second to syntax, and the third to language acquisition and language contact.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Editors' Introduction; 3. Part I. Phonetics & phonology; 4. Empirical evidence: Stress as a perceptual unit in Cairene spoken Arabic (by Aquil, Rajaa); 5. Regressive voicing assimilation in Cairene Arabic (by Kabrah, Rawiah S.); 6. The phonology-syntax interface:: Phrasal syncope in Makkan Arabic (by Abu-Mansour, Mahasen Hasan); 7. Leading, linking, and closing tones and tunes in Egyptian Arabic - what a simple intonation system tells us about the nature of intonation (by Zarka, Dina El); 8. Part II. Morphology & syntax; 9. Arabic agree, silent pronouns, and reciprocals (by Fassi Fehri, Abdelkader); 10. Mood feature as case licenser in Modern Standard Arabic (by Leung, Tommi Tsz-Cheung); 11. Extraction and deletion in Palestinian Arabic comparatives (by McNabb, Yaron); 12. The verb kan 'be' in Moroccan Arabic (by Chatar-Moumni, Nizha); 13. Against the split-CP hypothesis: Evidence from Iraqi Arabic (by Bakir, Murtadha J.); 14. Part III. Language acquisition, learning & contact; 15. Probability matching in Arabic and Romance morphology (by Walter, Mary Ann); 16. Gender differences in VOT production of Arabic/English bilingual children (by Saadah, Eman); 17. Phonological processing in diglossic Arabic: The role of linguistic distance (by Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor); 18. Early acquisition of SVO and VSO word orders in Palestinian Colloquial Arabic (by Khamis-Dakwar, Reem); 19. Index
