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MUFLEH SALEM M. ALQAHTANI

Professor

Professor of Theoretical Linguistics (Phonology)

اللغات وعلومها
Department of Linguistics, College of Language Sciences
publication
Journal Article
2025

Metrically-conditioned high vowel syncope in Najdi Arabic

Metrically-conditioned high vowel syncope in Najdi Arabic

Our investigation explored the novel findings regarding how high vowel syncope is metrically conditioned in Najdi Arabic (NA), a dialect that is spoken in the Najd province in Saudi Arabia, based on Harmonic Serialism (HS). Our study examined the serial interaction of high vowel syncope and stress/footing, which relies on syllable weight and position in NA. Our findings showed that high vowel syncope in NA occurred in accordance with derivational steps in a feeding order. Moreover, HS is effective for expressing metrically conditioned high vowel syncope in NA.

Publication Work Type
Manuscript
Publisher Name
De Gruyter Mouton
Publishing City
Poznan
Volume Number
61
Issue Number
3
Magazine \ Newspaper
Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
Pages
283–251
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publications

Our investigation explored the novel findings regarding how high vowel syncope is metrically conditioned in Najdi Arabic (NA), a dialect that is spoken in the Najd province in Saudi Arabia, based…

by Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani
2025
Published in:
De Gruyter Mouton
publications

This paper examines serialism (i.e. serial derivations) in regressive voicing assimilation (RVA) within the framework of harmonic serialism in coping with heterorganic obstruent clusters in Modern…

by Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani
2025
Published in:
Oxford University Press
publications

This research discusses the underapplication opacity, namely counterbleeding, of non-local compensatory lengthening in Modern Colloquial Persian, a style of informal speech in Iran (mostly in…

by Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani
2023
Published in:
Sage Open (indexed in Web of Science)