The phonology and morphology of Arabic

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The MADAR Arabic Dialect Corpus and Lexicon (2018, background): “DA varies phonologically, lexically, and morphologically from MSA, from region to region and to a lesser extent, from city to city in each region (Watson, 2007).”
Intonational pitch accent distribution in Egyptian Arabic. (2006, background): “The minimal word in EA is bimoraic (Watson 2002), and this is here analysed as being due to a constraint on foot size, FTBIN, which is widely argued for (McCarthy & Prince 1990, Yip 2002).”
The ‘tight approximant’ variant of the Arabic ‘ayn (2007, background): “Those varieties in which stops are more common tend to be the more conservative dialects, so it is little surprise if they are rarer in the Arabic of Cairo, a phonologically innovative variety (Watson 2002: 10).”
Revisiting acoustic correlates of pharyngealization in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic: Implications for formal representations (2017, background): “…2014a); [Expanded Pharynx] (Lindau, 1975, 1978); [flat] (Jakobson, 1957/1962; Jakobson et al., 1952/1976); [Guttural] (Hayward & Hayward, 1989; Watson, 2007); [Lower/Upper Pharynx] (Czaykowska-Higgins, 1987); [Pharyngeal] (McCarthy, 1994; Zeroual & Clements, 2015); [Retracted] (Esling, 2005;…”