Rania Habib
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rania Habib is involved.
Articles
2016 Identity, ideology, and attitude in Syrian rural child and adolescent speech Child Language Variation: Sociolinguistic and formal approaches, Lacoste, Véronique and Lisa Green (eds.), pp. 34–67 | Article
Through ethnographic investigation, this study shows that the different linguistic behavior of girls and boys in the village of Oyoun Al-Wadi in Syria is due to gendered linguistic ideologies and attitudes that are utilized in different ways to project gendered (feminine or masculine) and spatial… read more
2011 Frequency effects and lexical split in the use of [t] and [s] and [d] and [z] in the Syrian Arabic of Christian rural migrants Journal of Historical Linguistics 1:1, pp. 77–105 | Article
The change of the Standard Arabic interdentals, [θ] > [t] and [s], and [ð] > [d] and [z], in some Egyptian and Levantine Arabic dialects was traditionally explained in terms of two historical changes. The first change was a complete merger of [θ] with [t] and [ð] with [d]. The second change, i.e.… read more