Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics

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Zeki Majeed Hassan, Barry Heselwood
John Benjamins Publishing, 2011 - 365 pages
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.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Part i Issues in syntagmatic structure
27
Part ii Guttural consonants
99
Part iii Emphasis and coronal consonants
163
Part iv Intonation and acquisition
299
Appendix
355
Index
359
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