Sam Hellmuth

Department of Language & Linguistic Science

University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD

 

Tel: 01904 322657

Fax: 01904 322673

sam.hellmuth(at)york.ac.uk

Publications

Hellmuth, Sam. (to appear) Phonology. In Owens, Jonathan (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Chahal, D., & Hellmuth, S. (to appear). The intonation of Lebanese and Egyptian Arabic. In Jun, Sun-Ah (ed.) Prosodic Typology Volume II.  Oxford: OUP.

 

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Hellmuth, S. (2011) Variable cues to phrasing: finding edges in Egyptian Arabic. In T.Borowsky, S.Kawahara, and M.Sugahara (eds.) Prosody matters: essays in honor of Lisa Selkirk.  London, Equinox. pdf (pre-publication version) book information

 

Hellmuth, Sam. (2011) Acoustic cues to focus and givenness in Egyptian Arabic. In Majeed Hassan, Zeki & Barry Heselwood (eds.) Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics. [CILT319] Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp301-323. pdf (pre-publication version) book information

 

Hellmuth, Sam. (2011) Accent distribution effects in L2 English: causes and implications. In Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, Katarzyna, Magdalena Wrembel, & Malgorzata Kul (eds.) Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010. Volume I. pp 137-148. Oxford: Peter Lang. book information

 

Hellmuth, S. (2011) How many levels of phrasing? empirical questions and typological implications. In Washburn MB, McKinney-Bock K, Varis E, Sawyer A, and B Tomaszewicz (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp258-266. download paper

van der Hulst, H. & Hellmuth, S. (2010) Word accent systems in the Middle East. In Goedemans, R.W.N. & van der Hulst, H.G. A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp615-646. book information

Hellmuth, Sam. (2010). The contribution of accent distribution to foreign accentedness: causes and implications. In Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, Katarzyna, Magdalena Wrembel, & Malgorzata Kul (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, Poznan, Poland, 1-3 May 2010. pp191-196. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz

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Hellmuth, S. (2010). Functional complementarity is only skin deep: evidence from Egyptian Arabic for the autonomy of syntax and phonology in the expression of information structure. In Erteschik-Shir, N., & Rothman, L. (eds.) The Sound Patterns of Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp247-270. pdf

 

Hellmuth, S. (2009). The (absence of) prosodic reflexes of given/new information status in Egyptian Arabic. In Owens, J. & A.Elgibali (eds.) Information Structure in Spoken Arabic. Oxford: Routledge. pp165-188. pdf

 

El Zarka, D. & Hellmuth, S. (2009). Variation in the intonation of Egyptian Formal and Colloquial Arabic. Langues et Linguistique 22:73-92. pdf

 

Hellmuth, Sam. (2008). A prototype transcription system for comparative analysis of Arabic intonation. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Language Engineering. pp165-176. pdf

 

Hellmuth, S., F. Kügler, & R. Singer. (2007). Quantitative investigation of intonation in an endangered language. Proceedings of the Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory Conference (SOAS, London, December 2007). pp123-132. pdf

 

Hellmuth, S. (2007) The relationship between prosodic structure and pitch accent distribution: evidence from Egyptian Arabic. The Linguistic Review. Volume 24, Issue 2-3, Pages 291–316. pdf

 

Hellmuth, S. (2007) The foot as the domain of tonal alignment of intonational pitch accents. Proceedings of 16th ICPhS, Saarbruecken, Germany. pdf

 

Hellmuth, S. & El Zarka, Dina (2007) Variation in phonetic realization or in phonological categories? Intonational pitch accents in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic and Egyptian Formal Arabic. Proceedings of 16th ICPhS, Germany – Special Session ‘Arabic Phonetics at the Beginning of the 2nd Millenium. pdf

 

Hellmuth S., Kügler & Singer R. (2007) Intonational patterns, tonal alignment and focus in Mawng. (Paper presented at ICPhS 2007 Satellite Workshop ‘Intonational phonology: understudied and fieldwork languages’.) pdf

 

Hellmuth, S. (2006)  Focus-related pitch range manipulation (and peak alignment effects) in Egyptian Arabic. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden. pdf

 

Hellmuth, S. (2005) No De-accenting in (or of) Phrases: Evidence from Arabic for cross-linguistic and cross-dialectal prosodic variation. In, Frota, Sonia, Vigario, Marina, and Freitas, M. J. (eds.) Prosodies, pp.99-112: Mouton de Gruyter. pdf

 

Hellmuth, S. (2004) Prosodic weight and phonological phrasing in Cairene Arabic. Proceedings of Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society (Main Session) 40-1 pp 97-111. pdf

 

 

Book reviews

Hellmuth, S. (2009) Review of: McCarthy, J. (2008) ‘Doing Optimality Theory’. Journal of Linguistics. 45: 480-485. link

 

Hellmuth, S. (2004) Two spoken dialects compared (review of Watson (2002): The phonology and morphology of Arabic). GLOT International 7:9-10. pdf

 

 

PhD Dissertation:

Hellmuth, S. (2006) Intonational pitch accent distribution in Egyptian Arabic. School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London to download page