Numeral form selection and accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic

Q2 Arts and Humanities

LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition Pub Date : 2022-08-23 DOI:10.1075/lia.21010.als

W. Alshammari

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Abstract

This study deals with the creation of cardinal numerals and accommodation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic (GPA) as it is spoken among foreign workers (FWs) and native Saudi Arabic speakers (Ss) in Saudi Arabia. Under the Feature Pool Hypothesis (Mufwene, 2001) and the Mutual Accommodation Theory (Thomason & Kaufman, 1988), this study looks at the features of gender and number agreement, and word order of the cardinal numeral and the noun. Data comes from interviews between Ss and FWs in GPA, and photo elicitation interviews used with Ss to identify how cardinals are used in Najdi Arabic. Through the lens of the Feature Pool Model, I offer a brief account of how cardinal numeral forms are selected in GPA. In particular, I examine how well cognitive factors account for the development and restructuring processes of the cardinal numeral system in GPA by taking into account factors such as frequency, perceptual salience (detectability), and pattern regularization, as well as the Foreigner-Talk register and accommodation. The results reveal strong tendencies of accommodation and conventionalization in numeral form selection.

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海湾洋泾浜阿拉伯语中的数字形式选择与适应

本研究涉及海湾洋泾浜阿拉伯语（GPA）中基数的创建和适应，因为它在沙特阿拉伯的外国工人（FW）和母语为沙特阿拉伯语的人（Ss）中使用。在特征库假说（Mufwene，2001）和相互适应理论（Thomason&Kaufman，1988）的指导下，本研究考察了性别和数量一致性的特征，以及基数和名词的语序。数据来自GPA中Ss和FW之间的访谈，以及与Ss一起使用的照片启发访谈，以确定Najdi阿拉伯语中基数的使用方式。通过特征库模型的视角，我简要介绍了基数形式在GPA中的选择。特别是，我通过考虑频率、感知显著性（可检测性）和模式规则化以及外国人谈话语域和调节等因素，研究了认知因素在多大程度上解释了GPA中基数系统的发展和重组过程。结果表明，数字形式选择具有较强的顺应性和惯例化倾向。

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LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： LIA is a bilingual English-French journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research of high scientific quality at the forefront of current debates concerning language acquisition. It covers all facets of language acquisition among different types of learners and in diverse learning situations, with particular attention to oral speech and/or to signed languages. Topics include the acquisition of one or more foreign languages, of one or more first languages, and of sign languages, as well as learners’ use of gestures during speech; the relationship between language and cognition during acquisition; bilingualism and situations of linguistic contact – for example pidginisation and creolisation. The bilingual nature of LIA aims at reaching readership in a wide international community, while simultaneously continuing to attract intellectual and linguistic resources stemming from multiple scientific traditions in Europe, thereby remaining faithful to its original French anchoring. LIA is the direct descendant of the French-speaking journal AILE.