PHONETICS—The Science of Speech

Abstract

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The symbolization of central approximants in the IPA

“…We noted in Ball & Rahilly (1999) this ambiguity between the palatal and velar semivowel and frictionless continuant symbols. Mart ⁄ ınez-Celdr ⁄ an (2004) suggests that this be resolved by adding the opening diacritic to the symbols for palatal and velar fricatives to denote the frictionless continuant.…”

Geminates and Long Consonants in Jordanian Arabic

“…Whether geminates are sounds produced with two phases or with two skeletal slots, linguists agree that in both cases they are long consonants counterparting the singletons (Ball and Rahilly 1999;Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996). However, the term "long" might be illusive.…”

“…Phonetically, geminates are treated as long sounds (Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996;Ball and Rahilly 1999) that counterpart singletons in Italian (Esposito and Benedetto 1999), Pattani Malay (Cohen, MacWhinney, Flatt and Jeferson 1999), Cypriot Greek Tserdanelis 2000, Tserdanelis andArvaniti 2001 ), Arabic (Al-Tamimi 2004), etc. "Greater muscular tension in the articulating organs" is needed to produce geminates (Trubetzkoy 1969:161) and to hold the articulators and maintain a longer occlusion time for the geminate contoid (Catford 1977:298).…”

Jordanian Arabic Final Geminates: An Experimental Clinical Phonetic Study

“…(2) X X tː Whether geminates are sounds produced with two phases or with two skeletal slots, linguists agree that in both cases they are long consonants serving as counterparts to the singletons (Ball and Rahilly 1999;Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996). However, the term "long" might be elusive.…”

“…Phonetically, geminates are treated as long sounds (Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996;Ball and Rahilly 1999) that counterpart singletons in Italian (Esposito and di Benedetto 1999), Pattani Malay (Cohen et al 1999), Cypriot Greek (Arvaniti and Tserdanelis 2000;Tserdanelis and Arvaniti 2001), Arabic (Al-Tamimi 2004), etc. "Greater muscular tension in the articulating organs" is needed to produce geminates (Trubetzkoy 1969: 161) and "to hold the articulators and maintain a longer occlusion time for the geminate contoid" (Catford 1977: 298).…”