A Phonetic and phonological description of the Maltese dialect of Mgarr (Malta)

Martine Vanhove (1, 2) , Antoinette Camilleri (1, 2)

1 LLACAN - Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire
2 University of Malta [Malta]

The paper is an overview of a Maltese dialectal variant spoken in the Western part of the main island. It provides evidence of a "missing link" in the phonetic evolution of long vowels towards diphthongs

Mots clés: linguistics; Maltese; phonology; dialectology

Mots clés: linguistique; maltais; phonologie; dialectologie

Domaines: Linguistique

Martine Vanhove, Antoinette Camilleri. A Phonetic and phonological description of the Maltese dialect of Mgarr (Malta). Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik = Journal of Arabic linguistics = Journal de linguistique arabe, 1994, 28, pp.87-110. ⟨halshs-00256597⟩