Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Syllable Responses

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Date: 15 Dec 2000
From: Alex Bellem <ab89 at soas.ac.uk>
Subject: Arabic Syllable Response

Most people argue for CV, CVV and CVC (Ellen Broselow with Cairene
Arabic for example springs to mind, but there are numerous references).
However, one could argue that Arabic supports CV only, an argument which
I am researching at the moment. I believe that a paper has been written
arguing that Moroccan Arabic has only CV syllables (under a Government
analysis). Older descriptive grammars of Arabic mentioned at least five
syllable types, in addition to those mentioned CVVC and CVCC. I am
working towards a CV-only analysis of Arabic (in all its
manifestations). However, if you're interested in a 'surface'
appearance, then you may have to bear in mind the different dialects,
because, for example, different syllable clusters appear to be permitted
in different dialects, and north African dialects behave quite
differently from Eastern Mediterranean and Gulf.

HTH,

Alex Bellem
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Date: 15 Dec 2000
From: Safa Jubran <jubran at osite.com.br>
Subject: Arabic Syllable Response

All the syllabic combinations that Tourabi mentioned are correct, but it's
important to add that V in these locations may be long or short
Safa

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Date: 15 Dec 2000
From: Kimary Shahin <knshahin at hotmail.com>
Subject: Arabic Syllable Response


At least in colloquial Palestinian Arabic, onsetless syllables are licit
word-internally, e.g., ma-.a.ja 'he didn't come', ma.ri.uul 'apron'.

Kimary Shahin
Dept. of English
Birzeit University
tel: 972-2-298-2177 (dept), 972-2-296-4504 (res.)

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