Abstract
The present study examined tongue shape during oral and pharyngeal consonants. A female speaker of Lebanese Arabic produced oral and pharyngealized versions of several consonants in the carrier phrase “Kataba CV al yom,” which means “He wrote CV today.” Ultrasound scans of the tongue were made in two planes, midsagittal and anterior coronal, during repetitions of the utterances. The [h] had the most interesting results. Pharyngealized [h] used a higher posterior tongue than oral [h]. In addition, a midsagittal humping was seen in the pharyngeal [h]. The oral [h] had a midsagittal groove as expected. Similar effects seen in other CV combinations will be discussed.
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