<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Arabic-L: Mon 06 Dec 2010<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Quantitative Studies of Spoken Arabic<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 06 Dec 2010<br>From: Rania Habib <<a href="mailto:rhabib@syr.edu">rhabib@syr.edu</a>><br>Subject: Quantitative Studies of Spoken Arabic<br><br>Dear John,<br><br>I work on Syrian Arabic. I thought you might be interested in some of the following work for your class or for future reference.<br><br>Habib, Rania. To appear 2011. Frequency effects and the lexical split in the use of [t] and [s]<br>and [d] and [z] in the Syrian Arabic of Christian Rural Migrants. Journal of Historical Linguistics.<br><br>Habib, Rania. To appear 2011. New model for bilingual minds in sociolinguistic variation<br>situations: Interacting social and linguistic constraints. International Journal of Psychology Research 6 (6), 1-54.<br><br>Habib, Rania. To appear December 2010. Rural Migration and Language Variation in Hims,<br>Syria. SKY Journal of Linguistics.<br><br>Habib, Rania. 2010. Word Frequency and the Acquisition of the Arabic Urban Prestigious<br>Form [ʔ]. Glossa, October 2010, 198-219.<br><br>Habib, Rania. 2010. Towards determining social class in Arabic-speaking communities and<br>implications for linguistic variation. Sociolinguistic Studies 4 (1), 175-200.<br><br>If you need more quantitative details that may be emitted in articles, you could check the following two references:<br><br>Habib, Rania. 2005. The role of social factors, lexical borrowing and speech accommodation<br>in the variation of [q] and [ʔ] in the colloquial Arabic of rural migrant families in Hims, Syria. Unpublished MA thesis. University of Florida.<br><br>Habib, Rania. 2008. New Model for Analyzing Sociolinguistic Variation: The interaction of<br>social and linguistic constraints. Unpublished PhD thesis. University of Florida.<br><br>Please, note that if you are interested in references that have not appeared yet, you could e-mail me and ask me to e-mail them to you.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Rania<br><br>Rania Habib, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor of Linguistics<br>Coordinator of Arabic Program<br>Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics<br>Syracuse University<br>325 H. B. Crouse<br>Syracuse, NY 13244<br>Tel: 315-443-5490<br>Fax: 315-443-5376<br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 06 Dec 2010</div></body></html>