Phonetic neutralization in Palestinian Arabic vowel shortening, with implications for lexical organization
This study acoustically compares lexically short vowels in Palestinian Arabic to vowels that are underlyingly long, but have undergone 'closed syllable shortening', a phonological process affecting certain CV:CC sequences (as in /faːq-ʃ/ → faqʃ ‘woke-negative’; /ӡaːb-l-ak/ → ӡablak ‘brough...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/257 |