Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Transcription and Transliteration Systems |
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1 Variation in Spoken Arabic |
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1.1 The traditional dialectological approach |
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1.2 Studies of interdialectal conversation and the stylistic continuum |
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5 | (3) |
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8 | (2) |
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2 Bahrain: The Social and Cultural Background |
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10 | (11) |
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2.1 Geographical and historical sketch |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (5) |
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2.3 Linguistic consequences of social change |
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16 | (5) |
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3 Data Collection Methods |
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21 | (11) |
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3.1 Selection of speakers |
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21 | (4) |
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25 | (1) |
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3.3 Comparability of data between groups of speakers |
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26 | (2) |
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3.4 Intra-speaker variability: contextual styles |
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28 | (1) |
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3.5 Presentation of the analysis of variation |
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29 | (3) |
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4 The Social Distribution of Some BA Phonemes |
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32 | (16) |
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4.1 The linguistic background |
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32 | (2) |
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4.2 The dialect of the Arab |
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34 | (4) |
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4.3 The dialects of the Baharna: the village/urban split |
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38 | (4) |
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4.4 Summary of consonantal correspondences |
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42 | (6) |
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5 Phonemic Variation: Analysis and Interpretation |
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48 | (58) |
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48 | (1) |
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5.2 Measurement of variation |
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48 | (1) |
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5.3 Type 1 variables: the data base |
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5.4 Type 2 variables: the data bases for PV3 and PV4 |
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62 | (1) |
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5.5 Type 3 variables: the data bases for PV5 and PV6 |
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62 | (3) |
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65 | (1) |
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5.7 Levels of "dialectalness" |
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66 | (14) |
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80 | (1) |
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5.9 Implicational scaling as a data-displaying device |
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81 | (7) |
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5.10 Interpretation of trends in the scaled data |
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88 | (3) |
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5.11 Inter-rule relationships |
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91 | (4) |
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5.12 Rule formulation: some issues raised by the data |
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5.13 Summary of conclusions: `phonetic variation' |
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104 | (2) |
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6 The Social Distribution of Some BA Morphophonemic Patterns |
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106 | (18) |
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106 | (1) |
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6.2 Socially distributed morphophonemic differences: some examples |
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107 | (4) |
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6.3 Selection of variables for investigation |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (10) |
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122 | (2) |
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7 Morphophonemic Variation: Analysis and Interpretation |
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124 | (52) |
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124 | (1) |
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7.2 Syllable structure and stem-type |
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125 | (15) |
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7.3 Analysis of quantified data |
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140 | (34) |
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7.4 Summary of trends in the data |
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174 | (2) |
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8 Morphophonemic Rule Formulation |
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176 | (27) |
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176 | (10) |
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8.2 Implicational scales and DMR constraints |
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186 | (9) |
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8.3 Implicational relationships between DMRs |
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195 | (5) |
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8.4 Dialect-type and social network |
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200 | (2) |
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202 | (1) |
Bibliography |
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203 | (5) |
Index |
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208 | (4) |
Glossary of Technical Terms |
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