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Language:
Arabic, North Levantine Spoken
Lect:
Arabic, Damascene (ST1)
Language family:
Arabic, North Levantine Spoken (living)
Country:
Syria
latitude,longitude:
34.4,36.75
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 4 ] Sources [ 1 ] Words [ 8 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
U-P/A
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary Right, trochaic, iterative, QS, left EM ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Arabic, Lebanese) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 3 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
br_onsets: no
closed_syll: yes
long_v: yes
syllable_template: CV;CVC;CVV;CVV-C;CVC-C

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1980 McCarthy, J. (1980). A Note on the Accentuation of Damascene Arabic. In Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 10.2, pp 77-99.
maˈdaːres schools
darˈrast'i you masc.sg. taught
mutˈtahide united
ˈʕallam teach third sg.masc
ʕalˈlamna teach first pl.
ˈʕallamu teach third pl.
ˈfhimna  [non clitic] we understood
'fiˈhimna [clitic] he understood us