The existential sentence is a noncanonical type that used crosslinguistically to assert the (non)existence of one or more entities. It consists set syntactic items includes an expletive, pivot, and coda. Two different analyses have been identified in literature for construction. first analysis, standard treats as nonraising counterpart copular sentences. In this both sentences are derived from ...

In this study, I investigate vowel epenthesis that arises in loanword adaptation in Najdi Arabic (NA), an Arabic dialect spoken in the middle region of Saudi Arabia. In addition, I present experimental data from NA, to advocate for the perception-based analysis of loanword adaptation, an approach early adopted by Fleishacker (2002). Based on acoustic and perceptual evidence, Fleishacker has fou...

This study examines the relative sociolinguistic salience of three linguistic variables in two Najdi dialects, bedouin and sedentary dialects. The quantitative data elicited from interviews Alajmi (2019) shows that bedouins are converging on dialect, to varying degrees across variables. aim this is test whether reason why there variation level convergence. Three methods have been used measure v...

The Arabic discourse-pragmatic feature ya3ni occurs frequently in natural interactional settings. Several studies have reported that (lit. ‘I mean/it means’) has developed a wide range of functions many spoken varieties such as Egyptian (Elshimi, 1992; 1993; Marmorstein, 2016, 2021a), Gulf (Owens & Rockwood, 2008), Libyan (Gaddafi, 1990), and Syrian (Alkhalil, 2005; Habib, 2021). Although t...

This paper presents a comparative study investigating the influence of consonant voicing status on duration preceding vowels in Najdi Arabic and American English. In this study, phonetic correlates feature English were examined with regard to vowel examined. addition, acoustic measurements (duration, fundamental frequency, second formant frequency levels) taken. The /a:/ is produced monosyllabi...