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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Identity Effects and Opacity in Syrian Arabic: An Optimality Theory Analysis
Abstract
dc:descriptionChapter 5 shows how interdialectal differences stem from constraint ranking. Epenthesis and syncope in Iraqi and Egyptian Arabic are accounted for by permuting the constraint set that is present in the grammar of Syrian Arabic. A discussion of emphatic rounding in Lebanese Arabic is then pursued, comparing this dialect to SA utilizing the mechanism of parametrization.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Linguistics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Adra, Mohamed Ali
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Charles Kisseberth
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI9952944
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82688