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Borrowed words in Qatari Arabic: A case study of knowledge of meaning and knowledge of origin by Qataris
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University of Akron
, 2017 , Article)
Linguistic borrowing is a common, universal and intensively studied phenomenon. It is of interest to investigate this practice and its patterns in Qatari Arabic and to know to what extent the Qataris know the meaning and ...
Effect of emphasis spread on VOT in coronal stops in Qatari Arabic
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Cambridge University Press
, 2021 , Article)
Emphasis (contrastive pharyngealization of coronals) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments. Previous research suggests that in addition to changing spectral characteristics of adjacent segments, ...
The vowel system of Qatari Arabic: Evidence for peripheral/non-peripheral distinction between long and short vowels
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Cambridge University Press
, 2023 , Article)
Arabic has a vowel system with three long and three short monophthongs. One of the
parameters that accounts for qualitative differences between long and short vowels across
languages is tenseness/laxness of vowels located ...