The prevalence of voiceless realisations of as produced by young Iraqi Arabic speakers
Other Title(s)
انتشار اللفظ المهموس لصوت العين عند المتحدثين العراقيين الشباب
Joint Authors
al-Sirih, Wasan
Ali, Firas Fathi
Source
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 88 (30 Jun. 2019), pp.31-55, 25 p.
Publisher
University of Basrah College of Arts
Publication Date
2019-06-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
25
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Most studies investigating the pharyngeal consonant /ʕ/ found it to be voiced whether approximant or fricative.
Few instances in some Arabic dialects, Iraqi being among them, were found to be voiceless and with those being related to stops only.
Further investigations showed what seems to be an increase of voicelessness.
Accordingly, acoustic and auditory analyses of the realisations of /ʕ/ were investigated in recordings of universityaged male Iraqi Arabic speakers from a number of Iraqi cities.
Results showed /ʕ/ has more „voicelessness‟ than voicing for all three manners of articulation.
The sound is found to be characterised as a voiceless fricative, a voiceless approximant, or a voiceless stop.
These voiceless productions were found in both initial and final word positions, but more prevalent in final position.
Few productions were of voiced approximants; those were mostly found in initial position.
/ʕ/ is also accompanied by glottal bursts, creak and aspiration.
The age range of the speakers could explain the frequency of occurrence of the voicelessness of the sound which has not been previously reported in the literature.
American Psychological Association (APA)
al-Sirih, Wasan& Ali, Firas Fathi. 2019. The prevalence of voiceless realisations of as produced by young Iraqi Arabic speakers. Adab al-Basrah،Vol. 2019, no. 88, pp.31-55.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-895259
Modern Language Association (MLA)
al-Sirih, Wasan& Ali, Firas Fathi. The prevalence of voiceless realisations of as produced by young Iraqi Arabic speakers. Adab al-Basrah No. 88 (2019), pp.31-55.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-895259
American Medical Association (AMA)
al-Sirih, Wasan& Ali, Firas Fathi. The prevalence of voiceless realisations of as produced by young Iraqi Arabic speakers. Adab al-Basrah. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 88, pp.31-55.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-895259
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 53-55
Record ID
BIM-895259