A Phonological Analysis of English Loanwords Inflected with Arabic Morphemes in Urban Jordanian Spoken Arabic

Autor/in	Zibin, Aseel
Titel	A Phonological Analysis of English Loanwords Inflected with Arabic Morphemes in Urban Jordanian Spoken Arabic
Quelle	In: SAGE Open, 9 (2019) 2, (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Zibin, Aseel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-2440
DOI	10.1177/2158244019841927
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Linguistic Borrowing; English; Semitic Languages; Morphemes; Oral Language; Urban Language; Syllables; Phonology; Jordan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehnwort; English language; Englisch; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Morphem; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Silbe; Fonologie
Abstract	This article tackles a phenomenon in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA) where young individuals (mainly females) in Amman, the capital of Jordan, add the Arabic suffix -?k, which is glossed as second female singular or as a possessive pronoun, to English loanwords to sound more "modern," for example, "I love you" becomes [l?vv?k]. Through examining the data, two initial hypotheses were formalized, namely, when the Arabic suffix -?k is added to English monosyllabic words which have a short vowel in the nucleus (e.g., love), the coda is geminated. However, if the word is disyllabic (e.g., mobile) or monosyllabic, but has a long vowel (e.g., juice) or a diphthong (e.g., face) in the nucleus, no gemination occurs. This article analyzes this phenomenon based on hierarchical syllable structure, metrical phonology, and optimality theory. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01