The biconsonantic group in initial position in Arabic  Cover Image

Grupul biconsonantic in pozitie initiala in limba araba
The biconsonantic group in initial position in Arabic

Author(s): Roxana Mares
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Biconsonantic syllables; word initial position; word final position; Arabic;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the strategies adopted by standard literary Arabic and by spoken idioms in order to cope with the appperance of consonant groups in word initial position. In the second part of this article, the authors are revising the types of strategies that Modern Standard Arabic uses to avoid the apperarance of a biconsonantic groups and even a group of three consonants in word final position and the frequency of this phenomena.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 39-51
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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