Majed Abdullah Al Solami

Education

PhD   University of Toronto, Canada

Thesis: Vowel Elision, Epenthesis and Metrical Systems in Bedouin Arabic Dialects

Committee: Keren Rice (Advisor), Elan Dresher, Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Stuart Davis (External examiner)

MA    The University of Queensland, Australia

Thesis: Dialect Shift in Wadi Starah Migrants
Advisor: Ilana Mushin

Research interests

Broadly, I am interested in articulatory and acoustic phonetics, particularly in the interface between phonetics and phonology in Arabic. My work so far has been related to Arabic post-velar sounds and emphatics using ultrasound technology and acoustic analysis.

            I am also interested in synchronic metrical phonology and related segmental processes in Bedouin Arabic dialects of the Arabian Peninsula within lexical phonology and morphology framework. This includes the processes of syncope (high vowel deletion, trisyllabic elision, low vowel deletion) and epenthesis

 Courses

Phonetics and Phonolog

 Syntax

 Semantics & Pragmatics

 Morphology

Publications

Al Solami, M. (2022). The Metrical System of a Bedouin Hijazi Dialect. SKASE  Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 19(1), 2-22. Available on web page http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL50/01.pdf. ISSN 1336-782X

Al Solami, M. (2021). The Prosody of Harar Oromo Nouns. JURNAL ARBITRER, 8(2), 107-130

Al Solami, M. A. (2017). Ultrasound Study of Emphatics, Uvulars, Pharyngeals and Laryngeals in Three Arabic Dialects. Canadian Acoustics, 45(1), 25-35