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Laryngeal Contrast in Qatari Arabic: Effect of Speaking Rate on Voice Onset Time
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S. Karger AG
, 2019 , Article)
Beckman and colleagues claimed in 2011 that Swedish has an overspecified phonological contrast between prevoiced and voiceless aspirated stops. Yet, Swedish is the only language for which this pattern has been reported. ...
Voice and Emphasis in Arabic Coronal Stops: Evidence for Phonological Compensation
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SAGE
, 2021 , Article)
The current study investigates multiple acoustic cues–voice onset time (VOT), spectral center of gravity (SCG) of burst, pitch (F0), and frequencies of the first (F1) and second (F2) formants at vowel onset—associated with ...
Effect of emphasis spread on VOT in coronal stops in Qatari Arabic
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Cambridge University Press
, 2021 , Article)
Emphasis (contrastive pharyngealization of coronals) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments. Previous research suggests that in addition to changing spectral characteristics of adjacent segments, ...
Laryngeal realism and the voicing contrast in Khuzestani Arabic stops
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Cambridge University Press
, 2023 , Article)
In laryngeal realism (LR), laryngeal specification of stops is explained by direct maps of cues (e.g. VOT) onto privative phonological laryngeal features [voice] or [spread glottis]. Phonetic realization of the segments ...
The vowel system of Qatari Arabic: Evidence for peripheral/non-peripheral distinction between long and short vowels
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Cambridge University Press
, 2023 , Article)
Arabic has a vowel system with three long and three short monophthongs. One of the
parameters that accounts for qualitative differences between long and short vowels across
languages is tenseness/laxness of vowels located ...
Muslim personal names in Urdu: Structure, meaning, and change
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De Gruyter
, 2023 , Article)
Based on an analysis of a corpus, in this study we examine: (a) the linguistic structure of Muslim personal names, (b) their etymological sources, and (c) some changing patterns among the younger generation. Firstly, we ...