The Case of the Disappearing Hamza: Reanalysis of Radicals in Contemporary Spoken Dialects of Arabic

Abdel-Khalig Ali is an Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at University of Toronto. He is a phonologist specializing in contemporary dialects of Arabic, particularly those spoken in Sudan. His research spans the areas of prosodic phonology and metrical structure, the interaction between phonology and morphology, the interaction between phonology and syntax and the emergence of certain morphophonological features in contemporary spoken dialects of Arabic.