Ali Nirheche
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ali Nirheche is involved.
Article
2025 Modeling distance-based variable sibilant harmony in Moroccan Arabic with a MaxEnt grammar Selected Papers from the 37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Khamis, Reem and Mira Goral (eds.), pp. 188–215 | Article
The aim of this study is to examine the variable patterns of regressive sibilant harmony in Moroccan Arabic. This process is triggered by the palatal fricative [ʒ], and targets the alveolar fricatives [z] and [s], changing them to [ʒ] and [ʃ] respectively (Harrell, 1962; Heath, 1987, 2002). This… read more
