A linguistic investigation of the dual and plural forms of some borrowed words in the Jeddah dialect of Arabic

Abstract EN

Native speake rs of Jcddah dialect of Arabic (JA), like speakers of other A ra bic dialects , bor rowed many words from English .

.IA speak ers modi fy th ese words phon ologicall y and a lso apply to them th e ir nati ve dialect morphological ru les.

This stu dy aims a t revealing th e morphoph on ological p rocesses by whi ch JA speakers duali ze and pluralize borrow ed words.