Many Arabic speakers tend to insert a vowel in their pronunciation of English words. The first...

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Many Arabic speakers tend to insert a vowel in their pronunciation of English words. The first column has examples from L2ers whose L1 is Egyptian Arabic; the second column has examples from L2ers whose L1 is Iraqi Arabic (consider [t] to be a single consonant): L1 = Egyptian Arabic [bilastik] plastic [Biri:] three [tiransilet] translate [silard] slide [fired] Fred [tfildiren] children L1 = Iraqi Arabic [iflo:r] floor [ible:n] plane [filidren] children Arabic A kitabta 'I wrote him' kitabla 'He wrote to him' kitabitla 'I wrote to him' [ieri:] three [istadi] study [ifrɛd] Fred a. What vowel do the Egyptian Arabic speakers insert and where? b. What vowel do the Iraqi Arabic speakers insert and where? c. Based on the position of the italicized epenthetic vowel in "I wrote to him," can you guess which list, A or B, belongs to Egyptian Arabic and which belongs to Iraqi Arabic? Please explain your answer. Arabic B katabtu 'I wrote him' katablu 'He wrote to him' katabtilu 'I wrote to him' Many Arabic speakers tend to insert a vowel in their pronunciation of English words. The first column has examples from L2ers whose L1 is Egyptian Arabic; the second column has examples from L2ers whose L1 is Iraqi Arabic (consider [t] to be a single consonant): L1 = Egyptian Arabic [bilastik] plastic [Biri:] three [tiransilet] translate [silard] slide [fired] Fred [tfildiren] children L1 = Iraqi Arabic [iflo:r] floor [ible:n] plane [filidren] children Arabic A kitabta 'I wrote him' kitabla 'He wrote to him' kitabitla 'I wrote to him' [ieri:] three [istadi] study [ifrɛd] Fred a. What vowel do the Egyptian Arabic speakers insert and where? b. What vowel do the Iraqi Arabic speakers insert and where? c. Based on the position of the italicized epenthetic vowel in "I wrote to him," can you guess which list, A or B, belongs to Egyptian Arabic and which belongs to Iraqi Arabic? Please explain your answer. Arabic B katabtu 'I wrote him' katablu 'He wrote to him' katabtilu 'I wrote to him'

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