Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics

Abstract

1. Acknowledgements 2. List of contributors 3. Transliteration and transcription symbols for Arabic 4. Introduction (by Heselwood, Barry) 5. Part I. Issues in syntagmatic structure 6. Preliminary study of Moroccan Arabic word-initial consonant clusters and syllabification using electromagnetic articulography (by Gafos, Adamantios I.) 7. An acoustic phonetic study of quantity and quantity complementarity in Swedish and Iraqi Arabic (by Hassan, Zeki Majeed) 8. Assimilation of /l/ to /r/ in Syrian Arabic: An electropalatographic and acoustic study (by Heselwood, Barry) 9. Part II. Guttural consonants 10. A study of the laryngeal and pharyngeal consonants in Jordanian Arabic using nasoendoscopy, videofluoroscopy and spectrography (by Heselwood, Barry) 11. A phonetic study of guttural laryngeals in Palestinian Arabic using laryngoscopic and acoustic analysis (by Shahin, Kimary N.) 12. Airflow and acoustic modelling of pharyngeal and uvular consonants in Moroccan Arabic (by Yeou, Mohamed) 13. Part III. Emphasis and coronal consonants 14. Nasoendoscopic, videofluoroscopic and acoustic study of plain and emphatic coronals in Jordanian Arabic (by Al-Tamimi, Feda) 15. Acoustic and electromagnetic articulographic study of pharyngealisation: Coarticulatory effects as an index of stylistic and regional variation in Arabic (by Embarki, Mohamed) 16. Investigating the emphatic feature in Iraqi Arabic: Acoustic and articulatory evidence of coarticulation (by Hassan, Zeki Majeed) 17. Glottalisation and neutralisation in Yemeni Arabic and Mehri: An acoustic study (by Watson, Janet C.E.) 18. The phonetics of localising uvularisation in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic: An acoustic study (by Zawaydeh, Bushra Adnan) 19. EMA, endoscopic, ultrasound and acoustic study of two secondary articulations in Moroccan Arabic: Labial-velarisation vs. emphasis (by Zeroual, Chakir) 20. Part IV. Intonation and acquisition 21. Acoustic cues to focus and givenness in Egyptian Arabic (by Hellmuth, Sam) 22. Acquisition of Lebanese Arabic and Yorkshire English /l/ by bilingual and monolingual children: A comparative spectrographic study (by Khattab, Ghada) 23. Appendix: Phonetic instrumentation used in the studies