Contrast Preservation in dialects of North Levantine Arabic

Authors

  • Sarah Ouwayda University of Southern California

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.489

Abstract

This paper uses Contrast Preservation Theory to account for two opaque processes in two dialects of Levantine Arabic spoken in Tripoli: (1) a Push Shift effect in a dialect spoken in traditional neighborhoods and (2) a constraint paradox in the standard dialect.

Author Biography

  • Sarah Ouwayda, University of Southern California
    Graduate Student in Linguistics

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Published

2010-05-02

Issue

Vol. 1: LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 2010

Section

Articles

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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.