Linguistic Variation, Social Meaning and Covert Prestige in a Northern Moroccan Arabic Variety

This paper addresses how gender and age, as macro-sociological factors, influence variation and change in the Northern Moroccan Arabic variety of Ouezzane, and how social meaning plays a role in this variation. To do so, it examines the high degree of variability in the realization of two phonetic v...

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Main Author: Montserrat Benítez Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/89