Effect of emphasis spread on coronal stop articulation in Qatari Arabic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladimir Kulikov (0000-0001-9787-4801, Qatar University), Fatemeh M Mohsenzadeh (Qatar University), Fatemeh Mohsenzadeh, Rawand M Syam (Qatar University), Rawand Syam |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 16 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4652 |
| OpenAlex | W3012789630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Emphasis (contrastive uvularisation) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments (Davis 1995). The effect of emphasis spread on a consonant is manifested as lowering of its spectral mean (Jongman et al. 2011). Although stop consonants reveal a strong effect of emphasis, it is not known how emphasis spread affects other acoustic properties of stops, e.g. voice onset time (VOT). Previous studies (Kulikov 2018) showed that VOT and emphasis are linked in speech production: plain /t/ in Gulf Arabic is aspirated; emphatic /ṭ/ has short-lag VOT. Phonological theory predicts that plain /t/ should become more emphatic in emphatic context, which might reduce stop VOT as well. The current study investigates the effect of emphasis spread on VOT in word-initial coronal stops in Qatari Arabic. The stimuli, produced by sixteen native speakers of Qatari Arabic, contained target plain and emphatic stops /t/, /ṭ/ followed by short or long low vowel, and plain coronal obstruents /t, s, ð/ or their emphatic counterparts /ṭ, ṣ, ð̣/. The acoustic analysis included measurements of VOT and spectral mean of burst in the stop, and F1, F2, F3 frequencies at the vowel beginning, middle and end. The results showed that final emphatic obstruent triggered emphasis spread across the syllable. The effect of emphasis on the vowel was stronger next to the emphatic obstruent (p
Arabic · Consonant · Linguistics · Obstruent · Place of articulation · Speech recognition · Stop consonant · Syllable · Telecommunications · Voice-onset time · Vowel · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |