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The Syllable as Prosody: a re-analysis of syllabification in eastern Libyan Arabic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Jonathan Owens
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One unit of Firthian prosodic analysis is the anaptyctic vowel: ‘such common phenomena as elision, liaison, anaptyxis, the use of so-called cushion consonants or “sounds for euphony” are involved in this study of prosodies. These devices of explanation begin to make sense when prosodic structure is approached as a system of syntagmatic relation’ (Firth, 1948, 57 f.).

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , June 1980 , pp. 277 - 287
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1980

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