Aug 2026· مجلة واسط للعلوم الانسانية· 0 citations· 2 references
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This study is an Optimality-Theoretic comparison of two major dialects of Iraqi Arabic: Baghdadi Gilit Arabic (BGD) and Basri Arabic (BAS), focusing on syllable structure variation. The data were collected from 20 native speakers (10 for each dialect), representing both rural and urban backgrounds, as participants in recorded naturalistic conversations and in targeted elicitation tasks. The analysis examined a large set of more than 200 phonological tokens in the framework of Optimality Theory (OT), in particular, the ranking of the constraints for dealing with complex onsets, the resolution of triconsonantal clusters, and the Gahawa Syndrome. Key findings reveal that complex onsets are allowed in both dialects, but that they have different strategies for resolving the triconsonantal clusters and different characteristics in the occurrence and phonological conditioning of the Gahawa Syndrome.
This study examines vowel variation in the Khmer dialect spoken in An Giang Province, Vietnam, in comparison with Standard Khmer. Adopting a comparative phonological approach, the research systematically classifies structurally equivalent lexical items and analyzes recurrent pronunciation patterns across speakers. The...
Chhay Tan Chau· VNU Journal of Foreign Studi...· 0 citations
This study aims to investigate if the universal principles such as geminate inalterability and integrity are applicable in Turkish geminates by utilizing an optimality theoretic analysis besides exploring dominant constraint groups. Thus, Turkish National Corpus was referred for compiling Turkish words including lexica...
Aybüke Uzunca, Emine Yarar· Abant Sosyal Bilimler Dergis...· 0 citations
This study provides a contrastive syntactic analysis of verbal clause structures in Arabic and Afrikaans, focusing on the expression of tense, voice, mood, and negation. While Arabic is a Semitic language and Afrikaans a West Germanic language, the two intersect historically through the Cape Muslim community of South A...
Mogamat Igsaan Frieslaar, J. Glaeser, Tawffeek A. S. Mohammed· مجلة العلوم التربوية و الدرا...· 0 citations
Arabizi refers to Arabic written in Latin script. Although previous studies have shown that the prevalence and usage of Arabizi vary by factors such as region and age group, most NLP research on Arabic texts treats it as a temporary phenomenon resulting from limited technological support for the Arabic script. In this...
Amr Keleg, Ahmed Amine Ben Abdallah, Taha Yassine et al.· 0 citations
Abstract This paper investigates how speakers of Namibian German, a vital minority language in present-day Namibia, phonologically adapt borrowings. A quantitative study of spoken data from the corpus DNam reveals that nearly every examined phonological feature varies between phonologically non-integrated (e.g., Afrika...
Jones Y. Anam· Linguistics· 0 citations
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