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Language:
Arabic, South Levantine Spoken
Lect:
Arabic, South Levantine Spoken; Palestinian Arabic (ST1)
Language family:
Arabic, South Levantine Spoken (living)
Country:
Jordan
latitude,longitude:
31.6,35.4
Patterns [ 4 ] Attributes Syllables [ 4 ] Sources [ 7 ] Words [ 16 ]
Stress Type Pattern Description Notes View
Pattern Name Word Size Pattern Kind
primary
STCSPC
L (CNT)
 ≥1 syllable dominant
secondary Left, trochaic, iterative, QS, right EM (v3) ≥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 [ 3 ] Syllabic Template [ 1 ] Weight
closed_syll: yes
geminates: yes
long_v: yes
syllable_template: CVC CVV CVVC CVCC

No syllabic weight information for this lect.

1995 Hayes, Bruce. 1995. Metrical stress theory: Principles and case studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
125-130: Four-syllable words with only light syllables have preantepenultimate stress; five-syllable words ending in three light syllables have regular antepenultimate stress (Hayes 1995:125-130)
1983 Kenstowicz, Michael. 1983. Parametric Variation and Accent in the Arabic Dialects. Chicago Linguistic Society 19, 205-213.
3: Stress falls on the rightmost heavy syllable if this is one of the last three syllables of the word, otherwise it falls on the antepenultimate syllable. (Kenstowicz 1983:3)
1980 Abu-Salim, I.M. (1980). Epenthesis and geminate consonants in Palestinian Arabic. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 10.2., 1-11. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana
1982 Abu-Salim, I. (1982). A Reanalysis of Some Aspects of Arabic Phonology: A Metrical Approach. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Illinois.
1973 Brame, M. (1973). On stress assignment in two Arabic dialects. In: S.R. Anderson & P. Kiparsky (eds.). A festschrift for Morris Halle, 14-25. Holt, Reinhart &Winston, New York
1974 Brame, M. (1974). The Cycle in Phonology: Stress in Palestinian, Maltese and Spanish. In LI 5, pp 39-61.
1980 Kenstowicz, M. & K. Abdul-Karim (1980). Cyclic Stress in Levantine Arabic. In: Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 10.1, pp. 55-76.
daˈrast ɪ studied
ˈmaktab office
dukˈkaːn shop
ˈkatab he wrote
ˈbaːrako he blessed him
ˈkatabu they wrote
ˈšajaratun a tree
šajaˈratuhu his tree
ˈbakarito his cow
ʕalˈlamato she taught him
fhimna    [non clitic] we understood
ˈfihim he understood
'fiˈhimna [clitic] he understood us
ˈfihmu they understood
ˈfhimti you sg.fem understood
ˈbakarto his cow