Word Stress In The Palestinian Arabic Of Jerusalem

Download or read book Word Stress in the Palestinian Arabic of Jerusalem written by Nahil Adel Uwaydah and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palestinian Arabic dialect spoken in Jerusalem (PASJ) was investigated in an attempt to find two things . First, how the PASJ syll¬able is structured, and secondly, how word stress is patterned. The analysis of both followed the metrical procedure. For syllabification, the PASJ data were tested against the universal syllable structure on one hand and the Classical Arabic syllable on the other. The results showed that empirically the PASJ syllable template conforms more to the universal syllable than it does to the Classical one. As a phonological unit, the PASJ syllable has also proven to be very helpful in clarifying and interpreting the phonological rules related to the study of word stress. Syllables were projected hierarchically in the same way the words were metrically mapped. The syllable internal structure is determined by the relative values given to segments in relation to position in the syllable, syllables are also given relative values to form feet, and so are feet when they are weighed against each other word internally. The study concluded that the metrical theory captures the facts about PASJ phonological rules related to syllable structure and word stress in a more direct way than its predecessors, the structural approach and the linear abstract generative approach.