Papers by 21- Sehrish Shafi
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Feb 29, 2024
Stress placement in English loanwords into Mirpur Pahari (MP) is used to explore whether a usageb... more Stress placement in English loanwords into Mirpur Pahari (MP) is used to explore whether a usagebased approach can inform incorporation of external factors (e.g. exposure to a donor language-here, English) into formal phonological analysis of loanword adaptation alongside internal factors (e.g. phonology of the recipient language-here, MP). Stress placement in English loanwords into MP shows across-and within-speaker variation between conformity to MP stress rules (formalized in classical Optimality Theory) and retention of stress on the syllable that is stressed in English; this is a challenge for most theories of loanword adaptation. In our hybrid approach, variable adaptation patterns in individual speakers' loanword realizations in production data from 12 MP speakers in the UK are correlated with degree of exposure to English operationalized as vocabulary size, and a unified formal account is sketched through usage-based weighting of constraints in Stochastic OT.
Loanword Adaptation at Suprasegmental Level in MP- Monolinguals
Kashmir Journal of Language Research, 2020
SAGE Open, 2019
This article tackles a phenomenon in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA) where young individuals (mainly... more This article tackles a phenomenon in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA) where young individuals (mainly females) in Amman, the capital of Jordan, add the Arabic suffix-ɪk, which is glossed as second female singular or as a possessive pronoun, to English loanwords to sound more "modern," for example, "I love you" becomes [lʌvvɪk]. Through examining the data, two initial hypotheses were formalized, namely, when the Arabic suffix-ɪk is added to English monosyllabic words which have a short vowel in the nucleus (e.g., love), the coda is geminated. However, if the word is disyllabic (e.g., mobile) or monosyllabic, but has a long vowel (e.g., juice) or a diphthong (e.g., face) in the nucleus, no gemination occurs. This article analyzes this phenomenon based on hierarchical syllable structure, metrical phonology, and optimality theory.
A Closer Look At Multi Word Verbs In Pakistani English E-Newspapers: A Wordsmith Concord Tool Approach
Social Science Research Network, 2024
Migration letters, Feb 17, 2024
The study focuses on the particle or "multi-word" verbs (PVs) in online Pakistani English Newspap... more The study focuses on the particle or "multi-word" verbs (PVs) in online Pakistani English Newspapers' feature articles corpus (NFAC) and news articles corpus (NAC). The study is confined to the period between January 1st and March 31st, 2022. To conduct a detailed analysis, the WordSmith Concord Tool was employed, utilizing a specific set of parameters: particles were defined as context words, and the context search horizons were set to 0L (zero left) and 5R (five words to the right of the search phrase). The present research starts with the assumption that in terms of frequency of use and structural behavior, particle verbs could acquire genre-specific characteristics. There were methodical variances among the focused sections of the newspapers. Daily Times NFAC, particularly, was discovered to have the highest particle verbs' frequency, as well as the broadest range in terms of structural applications, formal and semantic innovations. In various genres for particle verbs, it was discovered that specific forms and connotations are predominant, even though the dataset's small size and the resultant lower frequency of individual particle verbs make generalization relatively hard.
Lexical Stress and Semantic Range: A Comparative Componential Analysis of Pahari and English Words
Global Language Review
Stress is a unique feature in any language's phonology, serving various purposes. The study e... more Stress is a unique feature in any language's phonology, serving various purposes. The study explores the function of lexical stress in Pahari by presenting a contrast between English and Pahari. In English, stress changes the syntactic category of the word; unlike English, the stress in Pahari not only changes the syntactic category but manages to put the lexical item in an entirely different semantic field with a sharp contrast of meaning. Documented data is insufficient for studying stress in Pahari, as it needs more established literature. Therefore, native Pahari speakers are the participants in exploring the phenomenon. Data analysis revealed that a stress shift in Pahari alters the entire organization of the lexicon in terms of a particular word as the word becomes representative of the different semantic fields. The feature distinguishes Pahari from English and many other languages where the stress changes only the syntactic category, not the semantic field; as a result, ...
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Papers by 21- Sehrish Shafi