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The Cost of Change: Plural Formation of Loanwords in Palestinian and Jordanian Arabic


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DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitarabling.60.0005




Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002 Israel; ; this research was supported by the Arabic Language Academy (ALA), Israel. I would like to thank Outi Bat-El, Tal Siloni and Elinor Saiegh-Haddad for their important comments and suggestions.

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