Jordanian Arabic Final Geminates: An Experimental Clinical Phonetic Study

• Authors: Feda al-Tamimi , Khaled Abu-Abbas , Rama Tarawnah
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

An experimental study was carried out to investigate word-final geminates in Jordanian Arabic. Monosyllabic singleton and geminate minimal pairs (CVC and CVCC) were considered to answer the three main questions of the study: Does gemination occur word-finally in Jordanian Arabic? Is there a temporal compensatory relationship between the vowels preceding geminate/singleton consonants? Are these differences contrastive? Eighteen participants produced 324 tokens with Ira., n, 1 and m:, n:, 1:/ occurring word-finallySpectrographic and videofluoroscopic analyses show that final geminates are permissible in Jordanian Arabic. The temporal compensation maintained with the preceding vowel and the tension in articulating the geminates enhance perceptuality boundaries and maintain phonemicity.

Keywords

EN

Gemination; phonetics; Jordanian Arabic; videofluoroscopy

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 111-125

Dates

published

2010-06-01

online

2010-07-29

Contributors

author

Feda al-Tamimi

• Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid

author

Khaled Abu-Abbas

• Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid

author

Rama Tarawnah

• Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-010-0006-6