The influence of emphatic /dˁ/ on Modern Standard Arabic vowels: An acoustic analysis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The influence of emphatic /dˁ/ on Modern Standard Arabic vowels: An acoustic analysis

Published:2019-06-01 Issue:1 Volume:61 Page:43-61
ISSN:2083-6090
Container-title:Lingua Posnaniensis
language:en
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Author:

Kalaldeh Raya¹,Al-Shdaifat Abd Allah¹

Affiliation:

1. The University of Jordan , Amman

Abstract

Abstract This study is part of a larger project on the influence of Arabic emphatics /tˁ, dˁ, δˁ, sˁ/ on adjacent Arabic vowels by considering three factors: vowel quality, vowel duration and directionality of emphasis spread. This paper investigates the influence of the voiced alveolar emphatic /dˁ/ on the six Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) monophthongs /ɐ – ɪ – ʊ – a: – i: – u:/ as produced by ten Jordanian speakers. The monophthongs in the adjacency of /dˁ/ are compared to those adjacent to the non-emphatic alveolar voiced stop /d/. Results indicate that in the emphatic context, the vowels are clearly retracted in the vowel space and that the extent of the emphatic influence in ‘preceding’ or ‘following’ contexts is not significantly different.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/linpo-2019-0003

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