Prosodic words are the domain of emphasis spread: evidence from Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic

This article, which reports on an experimental study based on data obtained from 86 native speakers of Northern Rural Jordanian Arabic (NRJA), offers empirical evidence that emphasis spread can apply bidirectionally across word edges when they are prosodically word internal. In other words, emphasis...

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Main Authors: Jaradat Abdulazeez, Jarrah Marwan, Al-Deaibes Mutasim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-07-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0008