Analyze effects of the flow on the vocalic reduction and the coarticulation in sequences CV of pharyngal Arabic

Abstract

The degree of coarticulation and the vocalic reduction (RV) are indices related to good engine control (Gay 1978). Fowler (1998) explains why locus equation (LE) is used to characterize, at the same time, the place of articulation and the degree of coarticulation between consonants and vowels: a strong slope (m=1) indicates a maximum coarticulation between consonants and vowels (i.e. minimal resistance of the coarticulation), while a weak slope (m=0) indicates absence of coarticulation between consonants and vowels (maximum resistance of the coarticulation). The bond between the degree of coarticulation and the RV can be explained according to the linear relation between F2onset and F2milieu: the modifications of values of F2milieu will affect those of F2onset and consequently those of the slopes. In this study, the analysis of the vocalic reduction and slopes of the equations of locus, carried out on CV (extracts starting from sentences) in standard Arabic pronounced by speakers having different mother tongues (near to Arabic standard and very far away from standard Arabic), and at speed of variable elocution, revealed a vocalic reduction and a variation of the slope of the locus equation, specific to each speaker, who seems to be related to his mother tongue. El Tamimi (2006) carried out a similar study with normal flow, in dialectical Arabic and in French, with normal flow, an influence of the mother tongue showed on the vocalic reduction and the slope of the equation of locus.