The Phonology and Morphology of ArabicOxford University Press, 2002 - 307 pages This is an account of the phonology and morphology of modern spoken Arabic, the first to be published in any language and based largely on the author's research. Dr. Watson's approach is theoretically innovative and aware, but accessible to Arabic language specialists outside linguistics. Broad in coverage, this is an important and pioneering book. |
Contents
1 INTRODUCTION | 1 |
2 THE PHONEME SYSTEM OF ARABIC | 13 |
3 PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES | 24 |
4 SYLLABLE STRUCTURE AND SYLLABIFICATION | 50 |
5 WORD STRESS | 79 |
6 MORPHOLOGY | 122 |
7 MORPHOLOGY 2 | 175 |
8 LEXICAL PHONOLOGY | 200 |
9 POSTLEXICAL PHONOLOGY | 226 |
10 EMPHASIS | 268 |
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active participle adjacent adjective affixed Arabic dialects articulation assimilation attested bimoraic broken plural Broselow Cairene Cairene and San'ani Classical Arabic consonant consonant-initial consonantal contrast CVCC CVVC syllables degenerate feet deletion derived devoicing dialects of Arabic diphthong domain-final dominant epenthesis examples extrametricality feminine singular final foot extrametricality foot layer fricative geminate glottal stop I/you initial interdental katab labial languages leftmost level-two lexical matrix McCarthy and Prince monomoraic mora morpheme morphology nasal object suffix obstruent OCP violation onset palatal palatoalveolar pattern penultimate perfect aspect pharyngealized pharyngealized coronals phoneme phonological word place features position pre-suffix prefix processes pronoun prosodic quadriliteral realized reduplication rightmost San'ani Section segmental layer Semitic sibilant sonorant Standard Arabic stem stress is assigned syllable layer syncope template third person trigger triliteral trochee upper moraic layer uvular velar verbal noun verbs vocalic melody vocoid voice voiceless vowel-initial Woidich word-final