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Stress Patterns In Bani Saxar Arabic In Jordan: An Optimality Theory Perspective, Doa'a Faiz Al-Momani, Radwan Salem Mahadin
Stress Patterns In Bani Saxar Arabic In Jordan: An Optimality Theory Perspective, Doa'a Faiz Al-Momani, Radwan Salem Mahadin
Jordanian Educational Journal
The present study aims to investigate stress patterns in Bani Saxar Arabic (BSA), an Arabic dialect spoken by Bedouins of the center in Jordan, from an Optimality Theory perspective. The data have been collected via tape-recording and note-taking of the participants' spontaneous speech. The study shows that the foot in the phonological system of BSA is iambic which is parsed from left to right. Degenerate feet are strongly prohibited since content words obey the word bimoraic minimality condition. The study also shows that stress assignment patterns in BSA can be accounted for by a limited number of universal constraints.
An Optimality Analysis Of Syllable-Based Processes In The Speech Of Normal Algerian Arabic-Speaking Children, Samia Azieb, Radwan Salem Mahadin
An Optimality Analysis Of Syllable-Based Processes In The Speech Of Normal Algerian Arabic-Speaking Children, Samia Azieb, Radwan Salem Mahadin
Jordanian Educational Journal
The present study aims at identifying the most frequent syllable-based processes in the speech of 80 normally developing Algerian children who are acquiring Jijilian Spoken Arabic (JSA) natively, and accounting for that within an Optimality Theory (OT) framework. The children's ages ranged between 1;2 (year;month) and 5 years and they were divided into four age groups of ten month intervals. Importantly, this study attempts to determine whether those processes are language-universal or language-specific. A thorough analysis of the data at the researchers' disposal revealed that Reduplication, Weak and Unstressed syllable deletion, Cluster Simplification, Vowel Epenthesis, and Final Consonant Deletion are …