Pronouncing Arabic

This book complements and extends the author's "Writing Arabic" and "Pronouncing Arabic 1", and so completes an introductory trilogy on the Arabic language. The learner, faced with a seemingly boundless variety of living Arabic speech, stands in need of a generalized framework within which to listen and respond. "Pronouncing Arabic 2" aims to answer this need. Professor Mitchell familiarizes the reader with regional and stylistic variation in colloquial speech outside the strict confines of Classical and so-called Modern Standard Arabic, and provides a uniquely comprehensive survey of the "accents" of various representative vernaculars. He gives guidance to consonants, vowels, accentuation, and intonation, paying special attention to Moroccan, Cyrenaican bedouin, Egyptian, Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian, Iraqi, and Kuwaiti Arabic. A special feature of the book is his analysis of the pervasive interweave of vernacular Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic known increasingly as Educated Spoken Arabic, by means of which the educated speaker avoids sounding, on the one hand, illiterate or outlandish, and, on the other, bookish and pedantic.Table of ContentPart 1 Consonants: general; classical-vernacular correspondences; loan consonants; labialization in MA; addendum. Part 2 Consonants - contextual implications: consonant clustering; anaptyxis; gemination; non-geminate assimilation; reductions. Part 3 Vowels: long vowels; short vowels; consonant and vowel; vowel harmony - imala. Part 4 Accentuation and intonation: accentuation; grammaticalities affecting accentuation; intonation and introduction. Part 5 Educated spoken arabic: the stylistic scale; stylistic domain; dento-alveolar friction and occlusion; more on Q-variation.