Abstract

Abstract The present paper aims at making an inventory of the different reflexes displayed by Classical Arabic interdental fricatives in present-day Arabic dialects. It attempts to classify and categorize a wide range of realizations in order to better apprehend the variation affecting this set of phonemes. The goal of our study is to identify the general tendencies that govern the dynamics of maintenance and loss of interdental fricatives in Arabic vernaculars.

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