William M. Cotter publishes in Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

William Cotter, third year PhD student in Anthropology and Linguistics, published an article in a recent volume in the Studies in Arabic Linguistics [SAL] series (John Benjamins), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII. Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014. His article, entitled “(q) as a sociolinguistic variable in the Arabic of Gaza City”, focuses on the variable pronunciation of the voiceless uvular stop /q/ in the Arabic varieties of the Gaza Strip, tracing the outcomes of dialect contact happening in the Gaza Strip between indigenous residents and Palestinian refugees living in Gaza since 1948. His article examines how contact between...