THE PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOLOGY OF ENGLISH LOANWORDS IN JORDANIAN ARABIC

• Published in: Ādāb al-Rāfidayn (Online) Vol. 19; no. 20; pp. 85 - 107
• Main Authors: Mohamed Dawood, salih Suliman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: University of Mosul, College of Arts 01-06-1989
• Subjects: exchange; proof; sound
• ISSN: 0378-2867; 2664-2506
• DOI: 10.33899/radab.1989.165619

This paper investigates the effect of Jordanian Arabic phonology and morphology on loanwords borrowed from English . It begin with deferential description of the phonemic inventories of English and Arabic and points out significant difference and areas  of divergence between the two languages with special  reference to germination and emphasis , which the paper argues are distance feature of Arabic consonants’ .
 Using  a large corpus of recorded  Jordanian Arabic speech the paper  shows that colloquial Jordanian  Arabic has a higher number of loanword than the written standard variety . It also shows the phonological changes loanword during the process of borrowing are in accordance with Arabic rules of emphasis , germination , assimilation , stress , vowel length , epenthesis and syncope . However , Jordanian Arabic is shown to have acquired the phoneme /v/ as a direct result of English loanword .