Perspectives On Arabic Linguistics: Papers From The Annual Symposium On Arabic Linguistics. Volume Xiii-xiv: Stanford, 1999 And Berkeley, California 2000

PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XIII–XIV AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E. F. KONRAD KOERNER (University of Cologne) Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.) Sheila Embleton (Toronto); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin); Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln) Volume 230 Dilworth B. Parkinson and Elabbas Benmamoun (eds) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIII–XIV. Papers from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics. PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS XIII–XIV PAPERS FROM THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIA ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS Edited by DILWORTH B. PARKINSON Brigham Young University ELABBAS BENMAMOUN University of Illinois, Urbana JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Dilworth B. Parkinson and Elabbas Benmamoun (eds.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XIII-XIV (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 230) ISBN 90 272 4738 2 (Eur.) / 1 58811 272 1 (US) (Hb; alk. paper) © 2002 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. • P.O.Box 36224 • 1020 ME Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O.Box 27519 • Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 • USA CONTENTS Editorial Note vii Introduction Dilworth B. Parkinson ix VOT Production in English and Arabie Bilingual and Monolingual Children Ghada Khattab Discovering Arabic Rhythm through a Speech Cycling Task Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh, Keiichi Tajima & Mafuyu Kitahara 1 39 An Argument for a Stem-based View of Arabic Morphology: Double verbs revisited Adamantios I. Gafos 59 The Broken Plural System of Moroccan Arabic: Diachronie and cognitive perspectives Robert R. Ratcliffe 87 Impersonal Agreement as a Specificity Effect in Rural Palestinian Arabic Frederick Hoyt 111 The Syntax of Small Clauses in Moroccan Arabic Fatima Sadiqi 143 Borrowing Discourse Patterns: French rhetoric in Arabic legal texts Ahmed Fakhri 155 What Is a Secret Language? A case from a Saudi Arabian dialect Muhammad Hasan Bakalla 171 Sentence Processing Strategies: An application of the competition model to Arabic Adel Abu Radwan 185 Acquisition of Binding in L1 Arabic Naomi Bolotin 211 Role of L1 Transfer in L2 Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology Mohammad T. Alhawary 219 Index of Subjects 249 EDITORIAL NOTE The papers in this volume were presented at the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics, held