A Phonological Analysis of English Loanwords Inflected With Arabic Morphemes in Urban Jordanian Spoken Arabic

This article tackles a phenomenon in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA) where young individuals (mainly females) in Amman, the capital of Jordan, add the Arabic suffix - ɪk , which is glossed as second female singular or as a possessive pronoun, to English loanwords to sound more “modern,” for example, “I...