New dialect formation

Al‐Wer, Enam

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“…This is in line with what has been observed in some recently developed urban centres such as Amman. As a matter of fact, second-generation speakers in the Jordanian capital alternate interdental realizations with their dental counterparts, while third-generation ones show a greater tendency for stopping interdentals 44 . However, the opposite phenomenon is also attested, and we can mention various cases of Arabic dialect contact situations in which the interdentals were maintained.…”

Section: Dialect Convergencementioning

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Dialect Variation Across Generations in Berkane (North-Eastern Morocco): the Case of Interdental Fricatives

Parrado

2023

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The aim of the present paper is to investigate intergenerational variation in the realization of interdental fricatives among speakers of Berkani Arabic, a variety spoken in north-eastern Morocco. Our survey is based on data gathered during fieldwork in the city of Berkane in December 2019. It is well known that, unlike mainstream Moroccan dia- lects, some varieties in the far north-east have retained old interdental fricatives to this day. Yet it seems that these phonemes are slowly fading or have already disappeared in some of the aforementioned vernaculars. This is the case, for instance, in the western division of the Huwwāṛa tribe and in the city of Oujda, respectively. As regards the city of Berkane, a preliminary analysis of our data indicates an almost complete loss of the voiceless inter- dental /ṯ/ and the voiced interdental /ḏ/. Conversely, instances displaying a voiced pharyn- gealized /ḏ/̣ are abundant in the speech of our informants, even if this sound is seemingly in free variation with its dental counterpart /ḍ/. Interestingly, this phonetic variation seems to be related to the age of the speaker. Thus, the number of occurrences of /ḏ/̣ is higher among middle-aged and older individuals. Such a finding could be indicative of the regres- sion of /ḏ/̣ in the speech of young Berkanis, which may be due to a process of convergence towards the mainstream varieties of Moroccan Arabic. The abandonment of other local features would seem to support this supposition.

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Section: Dialect Convergencementioning

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Dialect Variation Across Generations in Berkane (North-Eastern Morocco): the Case of Interdental Fricatives

Parrado

2023

meah arabe

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“…Another study on morphophonemic variation was conducted by Al-Wer (2003), who investigated the pronominal suffix -kum [darkum] (your house) in the speech of Amman youngsters. She found that the first generation of inhabitants of Amman did not use this suffix, regardless of whether this generation had originated from Jordan or Palestine.…”

Section: Arabic Variationmentioning

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“…The author found that the younger speakers who had more contact with the Ammani dialect were those who koineised, reflecting the effect of society on dialect shift. Al-Wer (2003) also believed that -kum was marked phonetically and paradigmatically. It is marked phonetically because gender distinction is preserved in the traditional Jordanian dialects via the use of the front-vowel second person plural suffix -kin (as in [darkin]), while the Palestinian and urban Levantine form -kun has a back vowel.…”

Section: Arabic Variationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Morphophonemic Variation in CaC-Initial Verb Structures in Kuwaiti Arabic

Taqi¹

2018

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This study aims to investigate the linguistic and social factors influencing the realisation of the initial Modern Arabic verb form CaC-in Kuwaiti Arabic (KA). While very few studies have examined the sociolinguistic variation of the initial verb form CaC-in KA, this variable has been found to be produced in the speech of two Kuwaiti communities from different ethnic backgrounds, namely Najdi (from Saudi Arabia originally) and Ajami (from Iran originally). The aim is to analyse the realisation of CaC-forms as a reflection of ethnicity, age and gender in KA. Data were collected from 48 male and female Kuwaiti speakers from two ethnicities (Najdi and Ajami), three age groups (chosen according to relevant milestones in the history of Kuwait). Two main techniques were implemented to collect data in this study, namely spontaneous and controlled data. The investigation showed that there were significant differences in the realisation of the initial verb form CaC-in the two ethnicities and across age and gender. The study also showed that the CaC-form had less prestige than did the CiC-form, which is mostly found in the Najdi variety.

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Language and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

Al‐Wer¹

2014

The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

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New dialect formation

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Dialect Variation Across Generations in Berkane (North-Eastern Morocco): the Case of Interdental Fricatives

Dialect Variation Across Generations in Berkane (North-Eastern Morocco): the Case of Interdental Fricatives

Morphophonemic Variation in CaC-Initial Verb Structures in Kuwaiti Arabic

Language and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

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