Sibawayh the phonologist : a critical study of the phonetic and phonological theory of Sibawayh as presented in his treatise al-Kitab

Abstract

Part 1 Historical perspective: early modern Arabic the beginning of Arabic grammar Sibawayh The Book. Part 2 The letters of Arabic I - number, places of articulation and status: the concept of - consonants as speech sounds consonants as syllables heirarchy of linguist units. Part 3 The letters of Arabic II - phonetic features: consonant versus vowel oppositions - voiced versus voiceless, strong versus weak, velarised versus plain, mushrabah versus galgalah and tafashshi. Part 4 The consonant in context: assimilatory processes idgham (assimilation) in identical segments idgham in segments of adjacent points of articulation idgham in apical consonants remote partial assimilation. Part 5 The hamzah in context: intervocalic hamzah hamzah contiguous with a consonant two neighbouring hamzahs. Part 6 the vowels in context: -imale (vowel fronting and raising) tafxim (velarisation') vowel harmony. Part 7 Conclusions: sound system of Arabic structural units of Arabic, hierarchy of phonological elements, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics.

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