The Directionality of Emphasis Spread in Arabic
@article{Watson1999TheDO, title={The Directionality of Emphasis Spread in Arabic}, author={Janet Watson}, journal={Linguistic Inquiry}, year={1999}, volume={30}, pages={289-300} }
Many modern Arabic dialects exhibit asymmetries in the direction of emphasis (for most dialects, pharyngealization) spread. In a dialect of Yemeni Arabic, emphasis has two articulatory correlates, pharyngealization and labialization: within the phonological word, pharyngealization spreads predominantly leftward, and labialization spreads rightward, targeting short high vowels. Since asymmetries in the directionality of spread of a secondary feature are phonetically motivated and depend on…
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