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Language:
Arabic, South Levantine Spoken
Lect:
Arabic, Negev Bedouin (ST1)
Language family:
Arabic, South Levantine Spoken (living)
Country:
Jordan
latitude,longitude:
30.5,34.75
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 2 ] Sources [ 3 ] Words [ 3 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
L (CNT)
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
i('H,'LL)L
 ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Arabic, South Levantine Spoken) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 2 ] Syllabic Template Weight
closed_syll: yes
long_v: yes

No syllabic template information for this lect.

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1981 Hayes, Bruce. 1981. A metrical theory of stress rules. 1980. Ph.D. thesis, MIT.
114: Stress the rightmost long vowel or vowel cluster, otherwise stress the second syllable (Hayes 1980:114)
1983 Kenstowicz, Michael. 1983. Parametric Variation and Accent in the Arabic Dialects. Chicago Linguistic Society 19, 205-213.
7: (Kenstowicz 1983:6) The structure HLLL may have initial or penultimate stress. In words of the structure LLLL stress varies between second and third syllable (Kenstowicz 1983:7)
1971 Blanc, H. (1971). The Arabic Dialect of the Negev Bedouins. In: Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Iv. 7, pp 112-150.
gaˈda lunch
faˈrasah his horse
kiˈtabaw they wrote