Open AccessThe Sound System of Baghdadi Arabic in the Light of Distinctive Feature Theory
Author(s) -
Inst. Dr. Abdul Rahman Abbood Hassan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
al-ustād̲
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2518-9263
pISSN - 0552-265X
DOI - 10.36473/ujhss.v214i2.632
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , arabic , linguistics , distinctive feature , feature (linguistics) , sound (geography) , sound system , computer science , history , philosophy , artificial intelligence , acoustics , physics
This paper is an attempt to look at the sound system of Baghdadi Arabic in view of the Distinctive Feature Theory, in order to see how far such a theory would be applicable to the language variety being dealt with in this paper. The main purpose ,here, is to see how far is it possible to group the sounds of Baghdadi Arabic into classes according to their phonetic (distinctive) properties. Thus, on one hand, the paper is meant to deal with the sounds of Baghdadi Arabic in terms of Trubetzkoy's distinctive oppositions, using the method of contrasting the classes of sounds according to such oppositions.