Blar i forfatter Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning "Youssef, Islam"
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Place Assimilation in Arabic: Contrasts, Features, and Constraints
Youssef, Islam (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2013-08-15)This thesis provides evidence from Cairene and Baghdadi Arabic that sub-segmental representations depend on the patterns of contrast and phonological activity in a given language. I investigate every process of place assimilation in these two varieties, and show that the analysis of an individual phenomenon must be congruent with that of the overall sound system. In the analysis, phonological features ...