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Authors:
Fazia Karaoui
Rachida Djeradi
Amar Djeradi
Keywords: pharyngealized consonants; Arabic vowels; coarticulation; x-ray images; vocal tract.
Abstract:
The phonetic and phonological properties of the pharyngealized consonants are essential for understanding how they affect the phonological systems of the languages in which they occur. This study focuses on consonants with a primary or secondary pharyngeal articulation, which occur in Moroccan Arabic dialect. Pharyngeal or pharyngealized consonants are rare and they are understudied. The manifestation of pharyngealization is centered between the consonant and vowel as in distortion of the formant transitions in the adjacent vowel. This study used ariculatory and acoustic data to characterize the pharyngealized Moroccan Arabic dialect sound and highlight their effect on neighboring vowel. The acoustic results from very specific articulatory configuration show that the vowel formants are influenced by the pharyngealized contexts and the articulatoy gestures spread on the adjacent vowel. It was also found that the pharyngealized and the voiced pharyngeal consonants have similar effects on the neighboring vowel.
Pages: 1 to 5
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: April 24, 2023
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3964
ISBN: 978-1-68558-034-6
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: from April 24, 2023 to April 28, 2023