Emphasis spread in the Djelfa dialect of Algerian Arabic

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ID23024432
AuthorsKhedidja Slimani (Ningxia Normal University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume10
Issue2
Pages285-307
Publication date2018-12-10
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBrill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1876-6633 • E-ISSN: 1877-6930
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/18776930-01002004
OpenAlexW2947355215
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

The paper documents Emphasis spread in the Djelfa dialect ( DJ ) of Algerian Arabic with a special examination of the emphatic segments /sʕ/, /tʕ/ and /ðʕ/. If a given word contains an underlying emphatic segment, the nearby segments are also realized with emphasis. The dialect, however, differentiates two types of emphasis spread: unbounded leftward spread that propagates from the emphatic segment till the beginning of the phonological word; and bounded rightward spread that is blocked by a set of segments /i/, /j/, /ʃ/ and /ʒ/. Of particular interest in the current investigation is the behavior of emphasis spread ( ES ) with respect to morpheme boundaries. While the left morpheme edge is realized with ES , the right morpheme boundary is deemed resistant to ES unless an underlying emphatic segment falls prior to a - V ( C ) suffix. This is well captured by the interplay between the markedness constraints FAITH [ RTR ] SUFFIX and SHARE ( RTR ).

Arabic · Bounded function · Emphasis (telecommunications) · Linguistics · Markedness · Morpheme · Set (abstract data type) · Suffix · Word (group theory) · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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