Patterns of Diffusion of Phonological Change in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Azran

Phonological changes often appear as far from regular on the synchronic level since we can only observe one of the stages through which they gradually progress. The lack of regularity is especially perceptible in the field of language documentation, where newly recorded varieties may display a higher or lesser degree of diversity. Dealing with internal variation and ironing out the inconsistencies in order to arrive at a systematic grammatical description is certainly a task faced while documenting the dialects of Neo-Aramaic.