This study examines the realizations of variable/ð/sound in Ammani Arabic(AA)as well as the correlation between this variation and a number of sociolinguistic factors.Four phonetic variants([ð],[d],[z]and[&#...This study examines the realizations of variable/ð/sound in Ammani Arabic(AA)as well as the correlation between this variation and a number of sociolinguistic factors.Four phonetic variants([ð],[d],[z]and[ðˤ]),four social factors(sex,age,region and educational attainment)and two linguistic factors(the position of the variant in the word and the syntactic category of the word)were investigated.To achieve the objectives of the study,40 native speakers of AA were interviewed for approximately 30 min each.A multivariate analysis using GoldVarb X was carried out in order to discern the effects of the operationalized factors on the variant choice.The results confirmed that the social and linguistic factors condition the variant choice.Additionally,the study examined the possible social meanings of variation in pronouncing the variable/ð/in AA adopting Silverstein’s(Lang Commun,23(3–4),193–229,https://doi.org/10.1016/s0271-5309(03)00013-2,2003)concept of indexical order.The sociolinguistic investigation of the variable/ð/in AA appears to suggest that it is an object of stylistic variation.展开更多
文摘This study examines the realizations of variable/ð/sound in Ammani Arabic(AA)as well as the correlation between this variation and a number of sociolinguistic factors.Four phonetic variants([ð],[d],[z]and[ðˤ]),four social factors(sex,age,region and educational attainment)and two linguistic factors(the position of the variant in the word and the syntactic category of the word)were investigated.To achieve the objectives of the study,40 native speakers of AA were interviewed for approximately 30 min each.A multivariate analysis using GoldVarb X was carried out in order to discern the effects of the operationalized factors on the variant choice.The results confirmed that the social and linguistic factors condition the variant choice.Additionally,the study examined the possible social meanings of variation in pronouncing the variable/ð/in AA adopting Silverstein’s(Lang Commun,23(3–4),193–229,https://doi.org/10.1016/s0271-5309(03)00013-2,2003)concept of indexical order.The sociolinguistic investigation of the variable/ð/in AA appears to suggest that it is an object of stylistic variation.
