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In:Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics
Edited by Mushira Eid and Robert R. Ratcliffe
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 153] 1997
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 12 August 1997
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Table of contents

Forewordvii
Introduction1
I. Discourse and Syntactic Perspectives
Remarks on Focus in Standard Arabic9
Definiteness Realization and Function in Palestinian Arabic47
Case Properties of Nominalization DPs in Classical Arabic69
II. Morphological Perspectives
Underspecification of Lexical Entries for Arabic Verbs93
Plural Formation in Arabic123
Prosodic Templates in a Word-Based Morphological Analysis of Arabic147
The Suppletive Imperative of Arabic “Come”173
III. Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives
On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects191
Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony215
Phonological Variation in Syrian Arabic: Correlation with Gender, Age, and Education239
IV. Perspectives on the Acquisition of Arabic
Arabic Speakers and Parasitic Gaps273
Stress Prosody and Speech Segmentation: Evidence from Moroccan Arabic283
Index of Subjects293
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