Research Interests
I'm interested in phonology, phonetics, and morphology- the linguistic subfields dedicated to the study of sound patterns, speech sounds and word formation respectively.
More specific interests:
phonological theory
feature geometry
segmental phonology
consonant-vowel interactions
phonetics-phonology interface
Optimality Theory
Semitic languages
Arabic dialectology
code switching
Languages I have worked on:
Arabic (Standard, Cairene, Baghdadi, Moroccan)
Buchan Scots
Hindi
English
PhD Dissertation
"Place Assimilations in Arabic: contrasts, features and constraints" (expected 2011)
MPhil Thesis
Committee:
Journals & Proceedings
to appear Emphasis Spread in Cairene Arabic: a Reassessment. Proceedings of the 9th International Association of Arabic Dialectology (AIDA) Conference.
sbm-ed Aspects of Dorsality in Baghdadi Arabic. Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSole).
2010 Laryngeal Assimilation in Buchan Scots. Journal of English Language and Linguistics 14.3: 321–345. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2010 Against Underlying Mid Vowels in Cairene Arabic. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik (Journal of Arabic Linguistics) 52: 5–38. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Book Reviews
2011 Review of Reem Bassiousney (ed.), Arabic and the Media: Linguistic Analysis and Applications.
2010 Review of Zeinab Ibrahim, Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic: Egypt, Lebanon and Morocco. Linguist List (issue 21.293).
Manuscripts
2005 A Typology of Emphasis Spread in Three Arabic Dialects
2005 Phases in L1 Acquisition of Negation: a comparative study of Cairene Arabic & English
2005 The Adjectival Relative Construction in Egyptian Arabic [available upon request]
2004 Greenberg's Universal 20 and its exceptions: examples from Semitic DP
2004 An Optimality-Theoretic Approach to Extrasyllabicity in Superheavy Syllables
2002 English-Cairene Arabic Classroom Code-Switching: a sociolinguistic approach
Conference Talks
2011 "Emphasis Spread in Cairene Arabic: a Reassessment"
2011 "Labialization in Baghdadi Arabic: features and constraints"
2010 "Palatalization in Cairene Arabic: from phonetics to phonology"
CASTL Colloquium Series, University of Tromsø (invited talk)
2010 "Coalescence and Retention of Diphthongs in Baghdadi Arabic: a unified analysis"
2009 "Aspects of Dorsality in Baghdadi Arabic"
2009 "Phonological Correlates of Emphasis in Baghdadi Arabic"
2009 "Feature Incompatibility in Cairene Arabic"
Laboratory Phonology Workshop, University of Tromsø
2009 "Place Assimilations in Arabic: presentation of PhD thesis"
CASTL Mini-Workshop, University of Tromsø
2008 "Vowel Raising Effects in Buchan Scots"
Indiana University (invited talk)
2008 "Against Underlying Mid Vowels in Cairene Arabic"
Indiana University (invited talk)
2008 "Feature Incompatibility Across Place Assimilations: Pharyngealization vs. Palatalization in
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
2008 "I am derived, therefore I resist"-Diphthongs in Cairene Arabic
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
2008 "I am derived, therefore I resist"-Diphthongs in Cairene Arabic
Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco
2007 "Diphthong- Mid-Vowel Alternations in Egyptian Arabic"
University of Bergen, Norway
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
2007 "Assimilation of Vocalic Features: Emphasis Spread in Cairene Arabic"
Phonological Features Workshop, University of Tromsø
©Islam Youssef, 2006–
