Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation

This book explores place assimilation phenomena in Cairene Egyptian and Baghdadi Iraqi Arabic,using a minimalist model of feature geometry to analyze patterns and representations. It is the first exclusive treatment of place assimilation in colloquial Arabic and will be of interest to scholars, advanced students, and phonologists.

Format: Hardback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2023
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co

This comprehensive book delves into a phonological exploration of place assimilation phenomena in two prominent Arabic dialects: Cairene Egyptian and Baghdadi Iraqi. It examines intricate interactions between consonants, vowels, and consonants and vowels, such as local assimilation, monophthongization, and emphasis spread and labialization. Throughout the content chapters, the patterns for each of these processes are meticulously described and substantiated with extensive data. Subsequently, they are analyzed representationally utilizing a minimalist model of feature geometry, adopting a holistic approach that ensures consistent representations for all segmental phenomena within a dialect. As the first exclusive treatment of place assimilation in colloquial Arabic, this book holds significant appeal to scholars and advanced students of Arabic linguistics and dialectology, as well as phonologists in general. It serves as a valuable reference for researchers interested in examining the intricacies of similar phenomena in other Arabic dialects.

Weight: 564g
Dimension: 168 x 250 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789027214225