The Concept of Light and Dark Sounds in Arabic Phonology

Abstract

Any reflection on a notional taxonomy, previously used throughArab phonetic studies, is immediately challenged by the diversity ofinfinite uses of divergent concepts that overlap and interfering,tending, in short, to confine themselves by the semantic charge theyconvey in gnoseological fields other than those in which theyoriginated, and by the ambiguity which restricts the functional andusable dimension of other concepts, especially those which theprecursors have failed to establish as levers of the construction of thelinguistic norm with all the necessary rigor allowing them to codifylanguage levels, starting with the phonetic and lexical system, toreach the semantic level, and this, like the Légèreté et lourise, Pointof articulation, Phoneme and Grapheme, Principal and accessory,Rhythm and cadence. As a result, the need has arisen to lay theground work for a new conception supported by an operative devicecapable of decapitating the signs of these conceptual variations and ofelucidating its effects manifest through the historicity of the Arabic