I know in the literature all papers that describe syllable structures in Arabic, referred to the following five patterns:
CV, CVV, CVC, CVVC, CVCC, and in some dialects CCV(V)C(C).
However, all these papers considered VV as the longe vowel, NOT two different vowels in a sequence!!
Therefore, could we consider Arabic as a language with only three core syllabic structures: CV, CVC, CVCC, where the CC is only a true consonant cluster with two different consonants, and V is the vowel either long or short???
Thank you Deema Turki for your interesting question. I consider that I am quite strong in literary Arabic but I am not a specialist in linguistics. However, your question prompted me to do a little research on what you raised as a topic.
According to Darwish Sally (2017), Syllable Structure constitutes the component of phonological words division focused on pronounceable segments of words and how they are composed, divided and distributed. Syllable structure is also a subdivision of the study of phonotactic, or the rules of sound distribution, the specific sequences of sound that occur in a language.
Ahmed M Hachim (2018), reported from some authors that the syllable is defined as a unit of pronunciation which has vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants and which forms the whole or a part of a word and the sounds that are produced from the human beings form what is known as syllable.
Arabic language tends to arrange its consonants in a linear fashion, and subscribes its vowels as diacritics or sporadic features above or under their consonants, reported the same author.
According to Darwish Sally (2017), Arabic syllable constraints full-form pronunciation:
-No syllable may start with a vowel
- No syllable may start with a consonant cluster (two of more) and all Arabic syllables start with CV or CVV.
According to the same author, the patterns of Arabic syllables are:
CVV: /fii/ CV: /ma/
CVC: /sin/
CVVCVC: /raahib/
CVVC: /baab/
CVCC : /nahr/
These following links could give you some useful information on this subject.
file:///C:/Users/DELL/AppData/Local/Temp/Syllable_structure_in_spoken_Arabic_a_comparative_.pdf
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~fadi/candidacy/DialectModeling/Hamdi2005.pdf
https://prezi.com/hmjlpyfkzwor/the-syllable-structure-in-arabic-language/
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/linguistics/faculty/ellen.broselow/files/Broselow_ArabicSyllStrPaper_revised.pdf
Ahmed M. Hashim (Author), 2018, Syllable Structure and Syllabification in English and Arabic, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/451232
I totally agree that Arabic syllables could be considered three: CV, CVC, and CVCC. The CVV contain CVVC are elongated vowel forms of the original CV and CVC.
As for CC, they are different and a condonant cluster.
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