TY - JFULL AU - Mohammad AL Amro PY - 2015/7/ TI - The Syllabic Scrutiny of Word Stress in Najdi Saudi Arabic T2 - International Journal of Cognitive and Language Sciences SP - 2243 EP - 2247 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10003696 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 102, 2015 N2 - This study will provide a brief description of the stress in Najdi Arabic dialect as well as Modern Standard Arabic. Beyond the analysis of stress patterns, this paper will also attempt to deal with two important phenomena that affect stress, namely epenthesis/insertion, vowel shortening, and consonant (the glottal stop) deletion. ER -