Browsing English Literature & Linguistics by Subject "Qatari Arabic"

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    • Borrowed words in Qatari Arabic: A case study of knowledge of meaning and knowledge of origin by Qataris 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa ( 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 

      Kulikov, Vladimir; Mohsenzadeh, Fatemeh M.; Syam, Rawand M. ( 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, ...

    • Generational Changes in VOT in Qatari Arabic 

      Kulikov, Vladimir; Al-Hajri, Najlla; Al-Kuwari, Buthaina ( John Benjamins Publishing Company , 2023 , Book chapter)
      The current study investigates variation in production of VOT in voiceless stops in Qatari Arabic. In line with Labov’s Cascade model, longer VOT in this dialect might be viewed as a new variable developing in the metropolitan ...

    • Voicing in Qatari Arabic: Evidence for prevoicing and aspiration 

      Kulikov, Vladimir ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Languages with a two-way voicing contrast in phonology usually contrast prevoiced b, d, g stops with voiceless unaspirated p, t, k stops or voiceless unaspirated stops with voiceless aspirated stops (Iverson & Salmons, ...

    • The vowel system of Qatari Arabic: Evidence for peripheral/non-peripheral distinction between long and short vowels 

      Al-Mazrouei, Aisha; Negm, Aisha; Kulikov, Vladimir ( 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 ...