Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics
Brought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods - acoustic and articulatory - to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity, assimilation, guttural and emphatic consonants and their pharyngeal and laryngeal mechanisms, intonation, and language acquisition. In addition to presenting new data and new descriptions and interpretations, a key aim of th…
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- Full title :Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics.
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Brought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods - acoustic and articulatory - to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity, assimilation, guttural and emphatic consonants and their pharyngeal and laryngeal mechanisms, intonation, and language acquisition. In addition to presenting new data and new descriptions and interpretations, a key aim of the volume is to demonstrate the depth of objective analysis that instrumental methods can enable resea.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
7.1.1 Slow speech rate.
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- Description:1 online resource (377 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027283221, 9027283222
- oclc:ocn767503050
- LC Classification:PJ6121.35
- Dewey Decimal:492.7158
Table of Contents
INSTRUMENTAL STUDIES IN ARABIC PHONETICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Transliteration and transcription symbols for Arabic; Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical Perspective; 2.1 Historical background to Arabic phonetics; 2.2 Methodological issues; 2.3 Arabic and modern phonetics; 3. The contributions in this volume; 3.1 Studies advocating a particular phonological perspective; 3.2 Studies focussing on realisational phenomena; 3.3 Conclusion; References; Part i Issues in syntagmatic structure.
Preliminary study of Moroccan Arabic word-initial consonant clusters and syllabification using Electromagnetic Articulography1. Introduction; 2. Experimental Methods; 2.1 Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA); 2.2 Materials; 2.3 Identifying gestures and interval measurements; 3. Stability results; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; An Acoustic Phonetic Study of Quantity and Quantity Complementarity In Swedish and Iraqi Arabic; 1. Phonological Background; 1.1 Swedish; 1.2 Arabic; 2. Aim of the study; 3. Experimental procedures; 3.1 Experimental set-up & speech material.
3.2 Statistical treatment4. Findings a…
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