To browse Academia. This volume contains over fifty articles related to various fields of modern Arabic dialectology. Since its first conference in Paris in , AIDA members gather every two years in different country. The collection of the AIDA proceedings offer an updated insight of the development of the field. During the past few decadesthe the study of Arabic dialects has become an important branch of research covering a wide range of subjects from phonological analyses, morphosyntax, semantics to pragmatics, sociolinguistics, folk linguistics, studies on literacy and writings, cultural and artistic practices, etc.
As many articles of this volume illustrate, the study of Arabic dialects explores different aspects of the languages and cultures of the contemporary Arab world. A remarkable feature is the growing and constant participation of young scholars from all around the globe. The necessity of studying Arabic dialects has attracted more attention in the recent years.
Qatar University chose to support the growing academic interest and research in the field by hosting the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe AIDA conference on 11 - 13 November Fewer papers deal on hitherto unknown dialects as the white spots on the map of Arabic dialects have significantly shrunk.
More papers focus on syntactical issues because we now possess more and larger text collections. Papers using "change" in their titles indicate that Arabic dialectology has a long history. Perhaps the time has come to re-examine the studies of the s, 50s and 60s concerning the dialects of certain regions. Qatar University chose to support the growing academic interest and research in the field by hosting the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe AIDA conference on 11 November Proceedings of the Texas Linguistics …, Many modern Arabic dialects exhibit asymmetries in the direction of emphasis for most dialects, pharyngealization spread.
In a dialect of Yemeni Arabic, emphasis has two articulatory correlates, pharyngealization and labialization: within the phonological word, pharyngealization spreads predominantly leftward, and labialization spreads rightward, targeting short high vowels. Since asymmetries in the directionality of spread of a secondary feature are phonetically motivated and depend on whether the feature is anchored to the onset or the release phase of the primary articulation,it is argued that the unmarked directionality of spread should be encoded in the phonology as a markedness statement on that feature.
