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Language:
Arabic, Hijazi Spoken
Lect:
Arabic, Bedouin-Hijazi
Language family:
Arabic, Hijazi Spoken (living)
Country:
Saudi Arabia
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 4 ] Sources [ 2 ] Words [ 6 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
U-P/A
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary
STCSPC
No informationNo information
 ≥1 syllable dominant
in_toto In progress ≥1 syllable dominant
exceptional Exceptional (Arabic, Bedouin-Hijazi) ≥1 syllable exceptional

No attributes associated with this lect.

Syllable Parameters [ 3 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
closed_syll: yes
geminates: yes
long_v: yes
syllable_template: CVC;CV;CVV;CVV-C;CVC-C

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
239: The stress pattern is based on moraic trochees, being ambiguous between the pattern of Latin and Palestinian Arabic. (Hayes 1995:239)
1981 Al Mozainy, H. (1981). Vowel alternations in a Bedouin Hijazi Arabic Dialect: Abstractness and Stress. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.
makˈtuːb written
ðaˈrabt i hit
makˈtuːfah tied.f.s.
gaːˈbilna meet us.m.s.
ˈmaːlana our property
ˈli for me