The perceptual accuracy of emphatic feature perception showed that the onglide F2 frequency plays a powerful cue in the identification of emphaticness in the neighbourhood of the palatal vowel, whereas the major acoustic cue in the discrimination of emphatic feature is the significant lowering of F2 steady state formant frequency in the vicinity of the low vowel. The data provided some acoustic evidence in favour of interpreting emphatic as a distinctive feature of the consonant in Arabic. Also an attempt was made to explain the mechanism involved in the production of emphatic feature in terms of co-production theory.

    In this paper, the results of a comparative study involving English small clause constructions and Dagaare serial verb constructions are presented. It is shown that while the two may exhibit different structures, there are some formal and functional overlaps between them. The object of the first predicate in either case is syntactically and semantically more prominent than the subject of the first predicate. Both constructions serve to express the causative and resultative parts of a complex event structure. Small clause constructions may be found in serializing languages but serial verb constructions are still more productive in such languages and often overlap with small clause constructions to express similar complex events.

    This article examines the syntactic properties of nominalization in Moroccan Arabic. Nominal, adjectival and verbal sentences are compared. The analysis takes into consideration two types of sentence. The first concerns simple predicates of verbs of feeling to which a number of syntactic tests have been applied that reveal that "kayen…Loc" serves as a support for simple sentences of feeling. The second type of sentence uses causative operators which are usually associated with complex sentences.

    It is high time we valued this important tradition; strategies and ways of preserving it are badly needed. Consolidating this oral tradition is as important as safeguarding old monuments. Research in this area ought to be emphasized and sustained by government and non-government organisations. One way of preserving oral tradition in North Africa is to profoundly study Dialectal spoken Arabic and Berber which vehicle orality in the region. Providing a linguistic atlas covering these dialects will be an asset to protecting oral tradition in this part of the world.

    This paper discusses the problem of the interpretation and classification of noun phrases in Standard Arabic. The author underlines the fact that noun phrases are varied and show a complex distribution whose interpretation is governed by both syntactic and semantic rules and constraints.