Phonological Processes in the Speech of Jordanian Arabic Children With Cleft Lip and/or Palate

Al-Tamimi, Feda; Owais, Arwa I.; Khabour, Omar F.; Khamaiseh, Zaidan A.

doi:10.1177/1525740109356798

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“…As reported in previous studies (Al-Btoush, 2005;Al-Tamimi et al, 2011;Gerken, 1994;Kehoe & Steol-Gammon, 1997, 2001Levey & Schwartz, 2002;Pater, 1997;Raja, 2008), children tended to delete non-final and unstressed syllables.…”

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“…The target of deletion is either the onset, the coda or the weak unstressed syllable in multisyllabic words (Dyson & Amayreh, 2000). Intriguingly, investigating syllable structure acquisition cross-linguistically proves the universality of weak/strong syllable rules indicating weak syllable deletion with preservation of the strong (stressed) syllables (Al-Btoush, 2005;Al-Tamimi et al, 2011;Gerken, 1994;Kehoe & Steol-Gammon, 1997, 2001Levey & Schwartz, 2002;Pater, 1997;Raja, 2008). By way of contrast, epenthesis refers to the addition/insertion of a segment (vowel/consonant) in order to meet the language syllable structure (Trask, 1996).…”

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Acquisition of Syllable Structure in Jordanian Arabic

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Al-Shdifat²,

Huneety³

et al. 2019

Commun Sci Disord

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The aim of this research was to investigate the early word syllable structure and notable phonological processes in the speech of Jordanian Arabic (JA)-speaking children. Methods: Elicited and spontaneous speech productions of 20 children were transcribed and analyzed by syllable structure. The ages of the participants ranged from 1 to 3 years, divided into four age groups: 1;0-1;6, 1;7-2;0, 2;1-2;6, and 2;7-3;0. Then, the data was analyzed according to ten phonological processes influencing word syllable structure and number. Results: CVC was found to be the most prevalent syllable structure used across all age groups. In terms of syllable number, disyllabic words were the most frequently used. Onomatopoeia, weak syllable deletion, and closed syllable CVVC reduction to CVV were noticed in the productions of children in the first age group. Cluster reduction and onset/ coda deletion occurred the most with the age group 2;1-2;6, while syllable deletion was evident until age 3. Conclusion: It appears that JA-speaking children use CVC syllable structure heavily in bisyllabic and polysyllabic words in their early speech; they avoid monosyllabic CV or CVC syllables to preserve the minimal bimoraic weight of Arabic phonological words. Onomatopoeia is noticed beyond the age of 1 with syllable deletion in the speech of children up to 3. The results are discussed within the context of the current literature.

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Acquisition of Syllable Structure in Jordanian Arabic

Mashaqba¹,

Al-Shdifat²,

Huneety³

et al. 2019

Commun Sci Disord

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“…The study also suggested that high level of education of speakers should not necessarily result in a higher approximation towards standard Arabic. The study's conclusions show that in Jordan, the two main factors that significantly affect how nonlocal, prestigious features are used are gender and social class (Tamimi, 2001).…”

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The Impact of Three Social Factors on the Variation of “Qaf” in Ammani Arabic

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This study aims to explore the effects of three social factors on the variation of (Qaf) in Ammani Arabic. In specific, the social factors investigated were gender, age, and level of education. In order to elicit a corpus of vernacular speech, thirty sociolinguistic interviews with 30 speakers who were all born and raised in Amman were conducted. Using computer software GOLDVARB X (Sankoff et al., 2005), it was found that all social factors were statistically significant. Furthermore, gender was considered the most significant factor while education appeared to be the least significant factor. The results of the study support previous research that females frequently use [?], presenting their feminine identity. In regard of age, old participants favored the use of [g] rather than [?] while [?] was most frequently used by young speakers. Moreover, education was also found as a significant social factor. In this respect, low-educated preferred [g] and highly-educated speakers preferred [q]. In regard to education, the researcher followed Abdel-Jawad’s (1987) proposal that education in Arabic is a genuine variable which directly affects language variation in Arabic.

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“…Different types of articulation errors such as nasalized stops, weak stops, devoicing errors, glottal, pharyngeal, palatal, and nasal substitutions are reported in the literature related to CLP speech [3,4,5,6]. Among these errors, nasal substitution for unvoiced stops is produced with highly altered glottal activity characteristics.…”

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Detection of Glottal Activity Errors in Production of Stop Consonants in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate

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Individuals with cleft lip and palate (CLP) alter the glottal activity characteristics during the production of stop consonants. The presence/absence of glottal vibrations during the production of unvoiced/voiced stops is referred as glottal activity error (GAE). In this work, acoustic-phonetic and production based knowledge of stop consonants are exploited to propose an algorithm for the automatic detection of GAE. The algorithm uses zero frequency filtered and band-pass (500-4000 Hz) filtered speech signals to identify the syllable nuclei positions, followed by the detection of glottal activity characteristics of consonant present within the syllable. Based on the identified glottal activity characteristics of consonant and a priori voicing information of target stop consonant, the presence or absence of GAE is detected. The algorithm is evaluated over the database containing the responses of normal children and children with repaired CLP for the target consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel words with stop consonants.

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Phonological Processes in the Speech of Jordanian Arabic Children With Cleft Lip and/or Palate

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Acquisition of Syllable Structure in Jordanian Arabic

Acquisition of Syllable Structure in Jordanian Arabic

The Impact of Three Social Factors on the Variation of “Qaf” in Ammani Arabic

Detection of Glottal Activity Errors in Production of Stop Consonants in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate

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