The Semitic Languages

Hetzron, Robert

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“…Under this scenario, men favor a more local variant. A third and opposite tendency is for women to adopt a variant that is more local than that adopted by men, who may even favor a standard variant (e.g., Daher, 1997 and1998). In doing so, women still grant prestige to these local variants.…”

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“…While pharyngealization has been the most reported articulatory configuration of emphasis in different dialects of Arabic (Laufer and Baer, 1988;Wahba, 1993;Davis, 1995;Hassan, 2005;AlTamimi et al, 2009), other configurations have also been proposed either besides or instead of pharyngealization. Among the proposed configurations are labialization (Watson, 1999), velarization (Norlin, 1978;Hetzron, 1998), uvularization (Zawaydeh, 1999), tongue retraction (Lehn, 1963) glottalization (Ladefoged, 1971) and, less frequently, heaviness, strong articulation and uresonance (Lehn, 1963). Wahba (1993) attributed the multiplicity of terms for emphasis to the articulatory complexity of emphasis.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Arabic, which, according to Hetzron (1998), have lost this feature over time. Even though emphasis is preserved and actively employed in most modern dialects of Arabic, it may not necessarily have the same articulatory, acoustic and perceptual correlates in all of these dialects.…”

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Effects of Gender on the Production of Emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: A Sociophonetic Study

Abudalbuh¹

2011

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics

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Section: Gender Patterns In Variationmentioning

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Effects of Gender on the Production of Emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: A Sociophonetic Study

Abudalbuh¹

2011

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics

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“…The prohibition of guttural gemination in Tiberian Hebrew results in lengthening the preceding vowel, a process called "compensatory lengthening". In Bedouin Hijazi, the presence of a guttural causes vowel deletion with a subsequent stress shift, such as basˤala "onion" that becomes bsˤala (Hetzron, 2013). This paper presents another evidence that gutturals form a natural class.…”

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The Behavior of Noon Sakinah and Nunation in Quranic Recitation: An Optimality Account

Abalkheel

2016

IJL

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Abstract"Natural classes" refer to the set of sound patterns that go together in phonological processes. This paper provides an analysis of the phonological behavior of noon sakinah and nunation /n/ in Quranic recitation based on natural class generalization within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). In some instances, the OT account may be accurate than traditional analysis. It provides evidence that natural classes derive from the nature of the set of markedness constraints, and that gutturals must constitute a natural class. The principal source of evidence for these proposals is that gutturals, unlike other places of articulation, do not induce nasal assimilation.

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“…For example, the term "pharyngealization" was used to describe the articulatory configuration of emphasis in several Arabic dialects (Wahba, 1993;AlTamimi, Alzoubi, & Tarawnah, 2009 "uvularization" (McCarthy, 1994), "labialization" (Lehn, 1963), "velarization" (Hetzron, 1998), and "glottalization" (Ladefoged, 1971) to describe the same process.…”

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Acoustic Correlates of Emphatic Sounds in Palestinian Arabic-speaking Persons with Aphasia

Al-Adam¹

2015

Language in Focus

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Objective:The aim of this study was to examine the acoustic characteristics of the emphatic sounds as produced by Palestinian Arabic-speaking persons diagnosed with Broca's aphasia as compared to normal speakers. Method: The acoustic correlates of emphasis in Palestinian Arabic using measurements of voice onset time (VOT), frequency values of F1 and F2 formants, and duration of vowel were investigated. Four subjects diagnosed with Broca's aphasia and four normal speakers residing in the West Bank participated in this study. The emphatic stop /t¯/ and its plain counterpart /t/ in initial positions presented in monosyllabic words were investigated. The target stops were followed immediately by the vowels /a/, /u/, and /i/. The speech samples were analyzed using PRAAT and Phono lab speech analysis software,. F1 and F2 formants were measured and compared with the data in the literature. Results: The acoustic measurements of the target vowels demonstrated an increase in F1 and a decrease in F2 formant in case of emphatic sounds compared to the plain one. Lowering of F2 formant was found to be a reliable acoustic cue of emphatic sounds. However, F2 formant was generally higher among subjects with Broca's aphasia compared to the control group. The results also revealed that subjects with Broca's aphasia were unable to maintain the acoustic distinction between the emphatic sounds and their plain counterparts. Conclusion: The VOT value of the emphatic voiceless stop /t¯/ was significantly shorter than that of its plain counterpart /t/ as demonstrated by both the normal speakers and the subjects with Broca's aphasia. The articulatory complexity of the emphatic sounds and therefore the deviated patterns in subjects with Broca's aphasia might suggest motor programming and motor planning deficits.

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The Semitic Languages

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Effects of Gender on the Production of Emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: A Sociophonetic Study

Effects of Gender on the Production of Emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: A Sociophonetic Study

The Behavior of Noon Sakinah and Nunation in Quranic Recitation: An Optimality Account

Acoustic Correlates of Emphatic Sounds in Palestinian Arabic-speaking Persons with Aphasia

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