Kimary N. Shahin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kimary N. Shahin is involved.

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Postvelar Harmony

Kimary N. Shahin

This book examines the formal bases of postvelar harmony and its crosslinguistic variation. It is of interest especially to phonologists concerned with segmental harmony and its explanation within Optimality Theory. Postvelar harmony in two unrelated languages, Palestinian Arabic and St'át'imcets… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 225] 2002. viii, 344 pp.

Shahin, Kimary N. 2011 A phonetic study of guttural laryngeals in Palestinian Arabic using laryngoscopic and acoustic analysis Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics, Hassan, Zeki Majeed and Barry Heselwood (eds.), pp. 129–140 | Article

In some languages, laryngeal consonants pattern with pharyngeals and uvulars as members of a guttural natural class. Phonologists and phoneticians have sought the phonetic basis for this pattern, as required by the Grounding Hypothesis (Archangeli & Pulleyblank 1994). We continue the search in this… read more

Shahin, Kimary N. 2003 Vowel innovation in Arabic: Inductive grounding and pattern symmetry Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 429–445 | Article

Shahin, Kimary N. 1998 Optimized Postvelar Harmony in Palestinian Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Benmamoun, Elabbas, Mushira Eid and Niloofar Haeri (eds.), pp. 143–164 | Article

Shahin, Kimary N. 1997 Acoustics of Pharyngealization vs. Uvularization Harmony Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and Robert R. Ratcliffe (eds.), pp. 215–238 | Article

Shahin, Kimary N. 1996 Accessing Pharyngeal Place in Palestinian Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Eid, Mushira and Dilworth B. Parkinson (eds.), pp. 131–150 | Article