Labialization in Cairene Arabic

This paper investigates certain morphological categories in Cairene Arabic where the contrast between the short high vowels [i] and [u] is neutralized. The understanding of these neutralizations has direct consequences on the featural composition of different classes of segments. The analysis is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Islam Youssef
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2013-02-01
Series:Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/2510