A Preliminary Analysis of Lebanese Arabic Intonation

This paper aims at describing the intonational patterns occurring in Lebanese Arabic. The dialect used is the one spoken in Tripoli. No study of Lebanese Arabic intonation (let alone the Tripoli dialect) has been previously carried out. Research on other varieties of Arabic is either impressionistic (ex. Haydar and Mrayati, 1985) or uses the British school tradition of intonational description (ex. Rammuny, 1989; Alharbi 1991; and Kharrat 1994)....