A Contrastive Metrical Analysis Of Main Word Stress In English And Cairene Colloquial Arabic With Reference To L2 English Learning

A Contrastive Metrical Analysis of Main Word Stress in English and Cairene Colloquial Arabic

This book analyses Cairenes’ interlingual errors in English main word stress following Halle and Vergnaud’s (1987) metrical model and Archibald’s (1998) parameter resetting. The findings show the difficulty the research subjects had in stressing items with stress different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress similar to CCA. The book also shows that the subjects’ correct stress patterns were due to parameter resetting, and that English stress patterns that are both different and more marked than corresponding CCA stress patterns caused learning difficulties for the subjects.

A Contrastive Metrical Analysis of Main Word Stress in English and Cairene Colloquial Arabic with Reference to L2 English Learning

The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic

This is an account of the phonology and morphology of modern spoken Arabic, the first to be published in any language and based largely on the author's research. Dr. Watson's approach is theoretically innovative and aware, but accessible to Arabic language specialists outside linguistics. Broad in coverage, this is an important and pioneering book.