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Dealing with syllable structure in the two main languages spoken in Morocco, Berber and Arabic, this books theoretical outlook is that of generative phonology. It deals first with Tashlhiyt Berber. This language has a syllable structure with properties which are highly unusual. On the one hand, complex consonant sequences are a common occurrence in the surface representations. On the other hand, syllable structure is very simple. The way these two conflicting demands are reconciled is by allowing vowelless syllables. Any consonant may act as a syllable nucleus. Nuclear status is preferentially assigned to segments which are more sonorous than their neighbours. In the last two chapters it argues that the conclusions about Tashlhiyt Berber carry over to a certain extent to Moroccan Arabic. The inventories of syllable types of the two languages are very similar. Unlike Tashlhiyt, Moroccan Arabic has an epenthetic vowel, but it also allows vowelless syllables.

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Author:   F. Dell ,  M. Elmedlaoui
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.643kg
ISBN:  

9781402010774

ISBN 10:   140201077
Pages:   385
Publication Date:   31 December 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 1.1. Goals and general outlook.- 1.2. The Berber languages.- 1.3. Berber in Morocco.- 1.4. Tashlhiyt.- 1.5. Tashlyiyt and Moroccan Arabic in contact.- 1.6. Imdlawn Tashlhiyt.- 2. Syntax and morphology, an overview.- 2.1. Sound system.- 2.2. Notational conventions.- 2.3. Syntax.- 2.4. Verbal morphology.- 2.5. Nominal morphology.- 3. Phonological backdrop.- 3.1. Preliminaries on gemination.- 3.2. The long segment as a sequence of two prosodic positions.- 3.3. The long segment as a single melodic unit.- 3.4. “Tension”.- 3.5. Conclusion on the geminates.- 3.6. Dorsopharyngealization.- 3.7. The voiced pharyngeal consonant.- 3.8. /u/ fronting.- 4. Tashlhiyt syllables I.- 4.1. Syllabic consonants.- 4.2. Tashlhiyt verse and singing.- 4.3. Singing words to a tune.- 4.4. Parsing Tashlhiyt verse: preliminaries.- 4.5. Pattern satisfaction.- 4.6. Generalizations on orthometric syllables.- 4.7. The role of sonority.- 4.8. Geminates in complex codas.- 4.9. Alternative parses meeting all the constraints.- 4.10. Summary.- 5. Tashlhiyt syllables II.- 5.1. The syllabification of word sequences outside of poetry.- 5.2. Imperfective gemination: the basic generalization.- 5.3. Imperfective gemination and the weight of hollow syllables.- 5.4. Length alternations in the causative prefix.- 5.5. Conclusion.- 6. Vowelless syllables.- 6.1. Vowels vs. transitional vocoids.- 6.2. VTVs are releases with voicing.- 6.3. The distribution of VTVs.- 6.4. The only surface vowels are a, i and u, two phonological arguments.- 6.5. Epenthetic vowels in Rifian Berber.- 6.6. Short vocoids in other works on Tashlhiyt.- 7. The syllabification of vocoids.- 7.1. Vocoid sequences not containing underlying glides.- 7.2. The need for underlying glides.- 7.3. Glides which are sonority peaks in theunderlying representations.- 7.4. Geminate glides.- 7.5. Conclusion.- 8. Syllable structure in Moroccan Arabic.- 8.1. Introduction.- 8.2. Standard transcriptions.- 8.3. The structure of syllables in MA.- 8.4. Violations of SonPeak in MA.- 8.5. The syllable structure of words.- 8.6. Summary.- 9. Vowelless syllables in Moroccan Arabic.- 9.1. The new analysis is simpler.- 9.2. Expanded hollow syllables.- 9.3. Comparing Tashlhiyt and MA.- 9.4. Releases in sequences of sibling consonants.- 9.5. Stable schwas.- 9.6. Summary of Chapter 9 and issues for further research.- Appendix I. Preliminaries to Appendices II and III.- Appendix II. Song.- Appendix III. Oratorical encounter.- Appendix IV. Five Ashlhiy tunes.- Appendix V. List of verbs with imperfective gemination.- References.

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