Stress Patterns of Bedouin Hijazi Arabic

An OT Account

Abstract

Viewing Bedouin Hijazi Arabic stress system as being quantity-sensitive, rightward and nonfinal (cf, Al-Mozainy (1981)), I show that general constraints formulated in Prince and Smolensky (1993) derive the BHA stress patterns in much simpler way. An implication of this analysis is that at least two levels of representation should be separately constrained to deal with the cases showing identical syllable structures but nonidentical stress patterns in the surface.