AN OPTIMALITY-THEORETIC APPROACH TO SAUDI ENGLISH LEARNERS’ PRODUCTION OF WORD-INITIAL BICONSONANTAL CLUSTERS

AN OPTIMALITY-THEORETIC APPROACH TO SAUDI ENGLISH LEARNERS’ PRODUCTION OF WORD-INITIAL BICONSONANTAL CLUSTERS

This study provides an Optimality-Theoretic analysis of the syllabification of word-initial biconsonantal clusters in the productions of Faifi Arabic and Asiri Arabic speakers. This study aimed at investigating the role of sonority in the syllabification of onset clusters. Two groups, each made up o...

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Main Author: Alfaifi, Abdullah Hassan M
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2015
Subjects:
Asiri Arabic
Faifi Arabic
sonority scale
sonority slope
nonword
syllable
onset clusters
Optimality Theory.
Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1783
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2797&context=theses

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https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2797&context=theses

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