Abstract
The paper deals with the formants of three short vowels in the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) language produced by 29 native and non-natives speakers. The studied vowels are /a/, /u/ and /i/. F1, F2 and F3 formants were computed from 145 sentences produced by both groups of speakers. Two experiments were conducted. The first investigation compared formants values of natives speakers with those of non-native speakers. When comparing the MSA L1 vowels against their MSA L2 counterparts, results showed a variation in vowel quality especially for the vowel /a/. A comparative analysis of formants values was also carried out with results of some eight Arabic dialect studies. The outcomes depicted variation especially in the pronunciation of the vowel /u/.
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