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Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
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Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Series: International Handbooks of Linguistics, 2
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This book is intended primarily as an original contribution to the
investi gation of the phonology of the two main languages spoken in
Morocco. Its central topic is syllable structure. Our theoretical
outlook is that of generative phonology. Most of the book deals
with Tashlhiyt Berber. This language has a syllable structure with
properties which are highly unusual, as seen from the vantage point
of better-studied languages on which most theorizing about
syllabification is based. On the one hand, complex consonant
sequences are a common occurrence in the surface representations.
On the other hand, syllable structure is very simple: only one
distinctive feature bundle (phoneme) may occur in the onset, the
nucleus or the coda. The way these two conflicting demands are
reconciled is by allowing vowelless sylla bies . Any consonant may
act as a syllable nucleus. When astring is syllabified, nuclear
status is preferentially assigned to the segments with a higher
degree of sonority than their neighbours. Consider for instance the
expression below, which is a complete sentence meaning 'remove it
(m) and eat it (m)': /kks=t t-ss-t=t/ [k. st. s . t:"] . k. k~t. t.
s. . slt. The sentence must be pronounced voiceless throughout, as
indicated by the IPA transcription between square brackets ; the
syllabic parse given after the IPA transcription indicates that the
sentence comprises four syllables (syllable nuclei are underlined).
The differences between the dialects of Berber have to do primarily
with the phonology and the lexicon.
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