Towards a comparative typology of emphatics: across Semitic and into Arabic dialect phonology
(2008)
Thesis
Bellem, A. Towards a comparative typology of emphatics: across Semitic and into Arabic dialect phonology. (Thesis). SOAS University of London
This thesis investigates the role of emphatics within the Semitic sound system as the basis for a typology of Semitic emphatics. In seeking to defme the term 'emphatic', since emphatics are realised in some Semitic languages as ejectives, and in othe... Read More about Towards a comparative typology of emphatics: across Semitic and into Arabic dialect phonology.