Effect of speech variable rate on the coarticulation in the right vocalic context of Arabic utterances VCV

Abstract

Our study consists of analysing Arabic utterances VCVα in brief vocalic context with Vα and speech rate as variables in order to observe the impact of the “right” context and speech rate on the coarticulation. Thus, we have to look for some invariance in the speech signal explaining the coarticulation phenomenon related to speech rate. So, we have analyzed the formant tracking of the arabic pharyngeal / / (or (ɛ) in arabic) in vocalises contexts /a/, /u/ and /i/ with variables speech rates (normal, fast and slow) in interrogative sentences. That is in order to confirm the anticipatory phenomenon and observed the influence of speech rate variation on the vocal tract in articulation. The observed results have shown in our case the existence of anticipatory articulation and that it depends on speech rate. (Non existence in slow rate, however, with more prominence in normal or fast rate.)