The Glottal Stop between Retention and Stigmatization
Khadidja Hammoudi
Broschiertes Buch

The Glottal Stop between Retention and Stigmatization

Case of Amman and Tlemcen Speech Communities

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The variable qàf has witnessed many investigations in the Arab world. The present comparative study tends to be a more challenging one for it approaches studying the same linguistic variable in two divergent speech communities: Amman in the Levant and Tlemcen in the Maghreb. The nucleus of the research concentrates on the dialectal realizations of (q) including the urban [ ] and the rural [g]. In addition to our focus on the process of dialect shift, our profound province is to shed light on the main motives which make the natives accommodate to and adopt the outsider's variety. The study bri...