| Preface and Acknowledgments |
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Overview of the Sociolinguistic Setting: Ways of Co-Existence |
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The Problem: Gender and "Standard" Varieties |
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10 | (2) |
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A Monolithic "Colloquial"? |
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12 | (6) |
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18 | (1) |
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Description of the Speech Community |
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Details of Fieldwork: Contacting and Sampling Speakers |
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23 | (5) |
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Details of Fieldwork: General Pattern of the Interviews |
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28 | (3) |
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31 | (2) |
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Children's Speech and the Use of the Qaf |
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Social Class Distribution in Cairo and in the Sample |
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34 | (3) |
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Sample of Speakers Analyzed for Each Sociolinguistic Variable |
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37 | (3) |
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40 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Palatalization: A Non-classical Stylistic Resource of Cairene Arabic |
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| Part I Linguistic Characterization |
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Articulatory Features of Palatalization from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective |
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45 | (3) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (2) |
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Results of Statistical Analyses |
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53 | (2) |
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Palatalization of Pharyngeal Segments: Contradictory Processes? |
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55 | (2) |
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Effects of Following Environment |
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57 | (4) |
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61 | (2) |
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Weak and Strong Palatalization: One Process or Two? |
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63 | (5) |
| Part II An Innovation of Women: Sociolinguistic Characterizations |
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Coding the Social Factors |
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Is Palatalization a Sound Change in Progress? |
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70 | (3) |
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Locating the Innovators: Gender and Social Class |
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73 | (10) |
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Education and Type of School |
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83 | (3) |
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Speakers' Reactions to Palatalization |
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86 | (2) |
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Differential Effects of Interviewers |
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88 | (3) |
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The "Paradox" in Women's Linguistic Behavior: A Critique of Sociolinguistic Theory |
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91 | (5) |
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Varieties of Social Meaning: Individual Portraits of Speakers |
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96 | (4) |
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Chapter 4 The Re-appearance of a Classical Sound: The Qaf |
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| Part I Diachronic and Synchronic Analyses |
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History of the Glottal Stop and the Qaf |
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106 | (6) |
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Disappearance of the Qaf: A Case of Languages in Contact? |
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112 | (3) |
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Review of the Literature: The Lexical Borrowing Model |
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115 | (2) |
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Review of the Literature: Variationist Studies |
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117 | (9) |
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The Qaf in Cairene Arabic: Linguistic Analysis |
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126 | (3) |
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Borrowing from the Classical Language |
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129 | (2) |
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Types, Tokens, and Morphological Characteristics |
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131 | (2) |
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133 | (2) |
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Phonological Variation in the Ten Most Frequent Nouns |
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135 | (2) |
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Phonological Integration or Segment Substitution? |
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Use of Qaf Lexical Items Among Children: An Experiment |
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139 | (5) |
| Part II In Whose Speech Has the Qaf Re-appeared? Sociolinguistic Considerations |
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The Qaf Index: A Problem of Measurement |
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Differences between Women and Men |
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Education and Social Class |
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The Re-appearance of a Sound and the Formation of a Sociolinguistic Variable: What Happens to Old Variables in a Diglossic Setting |
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Chapter 5 Searching for Explanations: Gender, Class, and Education |
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The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: "Standard" Arabic |
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160 | (8) |
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Urban Cairene: A Non-classical "Standard" |
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168 | (6) |
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Explaining Gender Differences: A Matter of Access? |
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174 | (9) |
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Language Change, Linguistic Behavior, and Ideology |
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183 | (8) |
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191 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 Language Attitudes and Ideologies |
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193 | (33) |
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194 | (6) |
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Signs of Ambivalence: Fear, Habit, and Identity |
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200 | (20) |
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Perceptions of Differences in the Speech of Men and Women |
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220 | (3) |
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223 | (3) |
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226 | (17) |
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Evaluations and Categorizations of Linguistic Varieties |
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235 | (2) |
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Diglossia Without Contact? |
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237 | (2) |
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Sociolinguistic Variables for Future Research |
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239 | (4) |
| Appendix 1 |
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| Appendix 2 |
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248 | (4) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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