Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics
Editors
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 researchers to achieve. A special feature of many chapters is the use of more than one type of instrumentation to give different perspectives on phonetic properties of Arabic speech which have fascinated scholars since medieval times. The volume will be of interest to phoneticians, phonologists and Arabic dialectologists, and provides a link between traditional qualitative accounts of spoken Arabic and modern quantitative methods of instrumental phonetic analysis.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 319] 2011. xii, 365 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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List of contributors
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Transliteration and transcription symbols for Arabic
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IntroductionBarry Heselwood and Zeki Majeed Hassan | pp. 1–26
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Part I. Issues in syntagmatic structure
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Preliminary study of Moroccan Arabic word-initial consonant clusters and syllabification using electromagnetic articulographyAdamantios I. Gafos, Philip Hoole and Chakir Zeroual | pp. 27–46
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An acoustic phonetic study of quantity and quantity complementarity in Swedish and Iraqi ArabicZeki Majeed Hassan | pp. 47–62
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Assimilation of /l/ to /r/ in Syrian Arabic: An electropalatographic and acoustic studyBarry Heselwood, Sara Howard and Rawya Ranjous | pp. 63–98
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Part II. Guttural consonants
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A study of the laryngeal and pharyngeal consonants in Jordanian Arabic using nasoendoscopy, videofluoroscopy and spectrographyBarry Heselwood and Feda Al-Tamimi | pp. 99–128
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A phonetic study of guttural laryngeals in Palestinian Arabic using laryngoscopic and acoustic analysisKimary N. Shahin | pp. 129–140
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Airflow and acoustic modelling of pharyngeal and uvular consonants in Moroccan ArabicMohamed Yeou and Shinji Maeda | pp. 141–162
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Part III. Emphasis and coronal consonants
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Nasoendoscopic, videofluoroscopic and acoustic study of plain and emphatic coronals in Jordanian ArabicFeda Al-Tamimi and Barry Heselwood | pp. 163–192
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Acoustic and electromagnetic articulographic study of pharyngealisation: Coarticulatory effects as an index of stylistic and regional variation in ArabicMohamed Embarki, Slim Ouni, Mohamed Yeou, M. Christian Guilleminot and Sallal Al-Maqtari | pp. 193–216
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Investigating the emphatic feature in Iraqi Arabic: Acoustic and articulatory evidence of coarticulationZeki Majeed Hassan and John H. Esling | pp. 217–234
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Glottalisation and neutralisation in Yemeni Arabic and Mehri: An acoustic studyJanet C.E. Watson and Alex Bellem | pp. 235–256
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The phonetics of localising uvularisation in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic: An acoustic studyBushra Adnan Zawaydeh and Kenneth de Jong | pp. 257–276
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EMA, endoscopic, ultrasound and acoustic study of two secondary articulations in Moroccan Arabic: Labial-velarisation vs. emphasisChakir Zeroual, John H. Esling and Philip Hoole | pp. 277–298
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Part IV. Intonation and acquisition
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Acoustic cues to focus and givenness in Egyptian ArabicSam Hellmuth | pp. 299–324
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Acquisition of Lebanese Arabic and Yorkshire English /l/ by bilingual and monolingual children: A comparative spectrographic studyGhada Khattab | pp. 325–354
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Appendix: Phonetic instrumentation used in the studies | pp. 355–358
“The book is well worth reading and should be used for teaching in Arabic departments for several reasons - it includes traditional ideas and perspectives in addition to the results of studies on Arabic using the latest speech technologies.”
Mansour M. Alghamdi,
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Journal of the International Phonetic Association
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFH: Phonetics, phonology
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General