Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis of Syllable Structure and Syllabification Patterns of Jizani Arabic(Saudi Digital Library, 2024-01-12) Bosli, Raneem Abualgasim; Cahill, LynneThis research has two main goals: to contribute to Arabic dialectology by documenting Jizani Arabic (JA) phonologically, that has not been well-documented previously; and to provide a comprehensive analysis of the interaction between syllable structure and syllable weight in JA using a parallel Optimality Theory (OT) and Moraic Theory. It focuses on the analysis of superheavy and extra superheavy syllables in final and non- final positions. This study illustrates that trimoraic syllables are strongly prohibited in JA. Thus, the last consonant in superheavy and extra superheavy syllables in final position is analysed as a non-moraic consonant to keep the bimoraicity constraint unviolated. Sonority rising in the coda position is prohibited. Thus, when the last consonant in CVCC is a liquid (/l/ or /ɾ/), a vowel is epenthesized. When the last consonant is a nasal, however, a vowel is not inserted. Therefore, it has been proposed that nasals are grouped with obstruents on the sonority scale to avoid sonority rising. Final geminates in CVC: are tolerated to maintain the minimality word condition. Final geminates in CVVC: are, however, degeminated to avoid the presence of trimoraic syllables. In non-final position, underlying and derived superheavy syllables are avoided in JA by using vowel epenthesis and mora sharing to avoid trimoraic syllables. Further evidence that trimoraic syllables are not tolerated in JA emerges from the analysis of hollow verb forms, that are followed by either an object suffix or a dative particle. The analysis of hollow verb forms that are followed by a subject suffix revealed that trimoraic syllables are still avoided, but parallel OT shows some weakness in accounting for all of the changes and that might best be explained by assuming some non-phonological information in the Underlying Representation (UR) of hollow verb forms in Arabic.18 0Item Restricted Loanword Adaptation in Najdi Arabic(2023) Alhomidan, Majid Suliman; Wiltshire, CarolineThe interest in studying loanword adaptation has been accompanied by a long- standing debate on how to approach such phenomena. Various phonological and phonetic approaches have been proposed to account for such phenomena (Paradis & LaCharité 1997; Uffmann 2001; Steriade 2001; Peperkamp & Dupoux 2003; Silverman 1992, and Yip 1993), among others. Therefore, the goal of this study is to contribute generally to the field of loanword phonology and to the phonology of the Najdi Arabic dialect in particular. The study investigates the adaptations of English consonantal and syllabic structures into Najdi Arabic. Moreover, it examines whether the adaptations employed by Najdi speakers are phonologically or phonetically grounded. Therefore, 1,234 tokens were elicited from 12 Najdi participants divided in two groups: 6 monolingual and 6 bilingual Najdi speakers. Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004) is implemented as an analytical tool in this study. The primary results of this dissertation show that no deletion is applied in Najdi Arabic consonantal adaptation since four English consonants are adapted by substituting them with native Najdi consonants and two English consonants are imported. With respect to syllabic adaptation, the results reveal that NA speakers adapted illicit clusters by epenthesis, i.e., inserting a vowel to break up clusters and without any instance of deletion. Both consonantal and syllabic adaptations in NA show that they are phonologically guided. In conclusion, this study favors the phonological approach (Paradis & LaCharité 1997) over the phonetic approach (Peperkamp & Dupoux 2003).17 0