The Comparison of Segmental Phonological Structure of Words in Arabic of Egypt and Syria

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10.2991/icclas-18.2019.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

similarities, differences, syncope, assimilation

Abstract

The main focus of this study is to describe the order of sound in two variation of Arabic language namely Egypt and Syria. The segmental phonological structure of words in these two languages is represented as language specific phonotactic templates especially the syllable structure in words. The aims of this study are: (1) to describe the similarities and differences of the order of sound into words pattern; (2) to describe the relationship between Egypt language and Syria from linguistic behavior process; (3) to describe consonant or vowel substitutions that enlarged by the processes of assimilation and syncope linguistic feature. The data used in this research was taken through interviews with Egyptian and Syrian Arabic speakers who studied at the Faculty of Adab and Humanities UIN Jakarta. This research conducted with the method and framework of diachronic linguistics theory that applies quantitative and qualitative approaches. Both methods were used to find evidence and the segmental phonological structure of words between the two languages are studied. Based on lexicostatistical technique, it is known that the similarity percentage of the Egypt and Syria Arabic languages are 28,5 % and the difference are 71, 5%. A number of finding that explain the characteristics of those languages in the rules of six pattern of segmental phonological structure, assimilation of sound which is occurred in the middle of the words, and syncope.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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