{"id":11050,"date":"2018-04-30T06:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T10:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11050"},"modified":"2018-04-29T17:31:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T21:31:50","slug":"11050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/04\/30\/11050\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonology Circle 4\/30 - Nabila Louriz  &#038; Michael Kenstowicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong>\u00a0Nabila Louriz (Hassan-II, Casablanca) and <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/kenstow\/\">Michael Kenstowicz<\/a> (MIT)<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>On the adaptation of vowels in French loanwords into Moroccan Arabic<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Date\/Time:<\/strong>\u00a0Monday, 30 April 2018, 5:00-6:30pm<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a032-D831<br clear='none'\/>\n <strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Moroccan Arabic has a simple three-vowel phonemic system \/i, u, a\/ plus epenthetic schwa. The vowels appear as \/e, o, ?\/ in the context of an emphatic (pharyngealized) consonant. As shown by examples such as boi?te &gt; \/bwaT\/ \u0091tin can\u0092 (cf. \/bwiyT-a\/ diminutive), French loanwords with \/o, a\/ (and sometimes \/e\/) are regularly borrowed with pharyngeal consonants\u0097a striking example of enhancement dubbed \u0093reverse engineering\u0094 in Kenstowicz &amp; Louriz (2009). In this presentation we briefly review this finding and then focus on the adaptation of French nasal vowels. Three contexts are considered. Word-medial nasal vowels are adapted as oral vowel plus homorganic nasal consonant: conge? [k???e] \u0091holiday\u0092 appears as \/ku??i\/. Word-final nasal vowels sometimes appear with a nasal consonant and at other times as a simple vowel with no trace of nasality: Fr bouchon [bu???] \u0091bottle stopper\u0092 &gt; MA \/bu?un\/ but ba?timent [batima?] \u0091building\u0092 &gt; MA \/baTima\/. Finally, word-initial vowels are often deleted: infirmier \u0091nurse\u0092 &gt; \/f?rmli\/. Our discussion focuses on some of the factors that may underlie the variation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers:\u00a0Nabila Louriz (Hassan-II, Casablanca) and Michael Kenstowicz (MIT) Title:\u00a0On the adaptation of vowels in French loanwords into Moroccan Arabic Date\/Time:\u00a0Monday, 30 April 2018, 5:00-6:30pm Location:\u00a032-D831 Abstract: \u00a0Moroccan Arabic has a simple three-vowel phonemic system \/i, u, a\/ plus epenthetic schwa. The vowels appear as \/e, o, ?\/ in the context of an emphatic (pharyngealized) consonant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11050"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11067,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions\/11067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}