Islam Youssef

List of John Benjamins publications in which Islam Youssef is involved.

Title

Patterns and Representation in Arabic Place Assimilation

Islam Youssef

This book is a phonological investigation of place assimilation phenomena in two major Arabic dialects: Cairene Egyptian and Baghdadi Iraqi. The studied phenomena involve interactions between consonants (various types of local assimilation), between vowels (monophthongization), or between… read more

[Studies in Arabic Linguistics, 13] 2023. xii, 230 pp.

Article

Youssef, Islam 2022 Plain-emphatic R phonemes in Arabic: More evidence for phonetics-phonology mismatches Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII: Papers selected from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Toronto, Canada, 2019, Ali, Abdel-Khalig and Atiqa Hachimi (eds.), pp. 77–98 | Chapter

Rhotics exhibit considerable variability across Arabic dialects, pertaining mainly to the notorious emphatic-plain distinction. This chapter aims to establish the underlying R phonemes (and their contextually conditioned allophones) in three different varieties of spoken Arabic, evidence of… read more