Emphasis in Cairo Arabic

Bibliographic Data

ID2911149
AuthorsWalter Lehn (corresponding author)
Year1963
Volume39
Issue1
Pages29
Publication date1963-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/410760
OpenAlexW2330383762
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The phonetic features of Arabic conventionally referred to by European and American scholars simply and collectively as emphasis, and identified by Arab grammarians as ?iṭbāq ‘spreading and raising of the tongue’, ?isti9lā ? ‘elevation of the dorsum’, and tafxīm ‘thickness, heaviness’, have been attested in all known modern dialects of Arabic except Maltese. Early Arab grammarians recognized three pairs of contrasting emphatic and plain (i.e. nonemphatic) consonants— /.t d/, /. /, and /.s s/, four other consonants as emphatic but unpaired— /.dqx γ/, and in certain environments emphatic variants of /1/ and /r/. That these were not the only consonants occurring with emphasis, at least in some environments, can be inferred from the proscriptions of such pronunciations in the Quranic orthoepy literature; but whether such consonants occurred in contrasting pairs, or only had emphatic positional or free variants, is less certain. In various modern dialects, restrictions on the distribution of emphasis and the number of contrasting emphatic and plain consonants differ considerably. All dialects have preserved the contrasting pairs listed above, or their reflexes. And as a result of sound change as well as borrowing and analogy, all dialects have acquired additional contrasting pairs; the following occur in all of the major dialects: /.t t/, /.d d/, /.s s/, /.z z/, /.l 1/, /.r r/, and, generally only in peninsular dialects, /. /. Furthermore, most of these dialects exhibit additional contrasting pairs, especially in the labial series

Arabic · Emphasis (telecommunications) · Linguistics · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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