Phonological Aspects of Jordanian Druze Arabic
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https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1303.15Keywords:
Druze Arabic, dialectology, Jordanian Arabic, phonological aspectsAbstract
This study examines the major phonological features of Jordanian Druze Arabic (JD). Druze are a minority group in the east part of Jordan. Their dialect has not been investigated before. First, we give a brief history of the socio-cultural background of the Druze. Then we investigate selected melodic and prosodic processes to be reported for this dialect: including syllable structure, assimilation (definite article assimilation, sonorant assimilation, non-coronal assimilation), emphasis spread, syncope, resolution, umlaut, and raising. Druze use these features most frequently. However, the raising process is the most dominant feature among them.
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