An acoustic description of stop consonants and vowels in Sorani Kurdish and English
Other Title(s)
توصيف صوتي للأصوات التوقفية و أصوات العلة في اللغة الكردية السورانية و اللغة الإنكليزية
Author
Source
Journal of the College of Languages
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 37 (30 Jun. 2018), pp.140-154, 15 p.
Publisher
University of Baghdad College of Languages
Publication Date
2018-06-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Languages & Comparative Literature
Abstract EN
This study aims to document and describe the speech sounds and sound inventory that are present in Sorani which is dialect of Kurdish and compare the results with their English counterparts.
The research concentrates on the voicing system and the quality of Sorani sounds which are measured by using the voice onset time (VOT) of the stop consonants, and the first three formants of the vowel sounds; the closure duration of voiceless stop consonants in medial position is measured as well.
at the time of recording.
Speakers have been recorded using a Marantz PMD671 digital recorder and an Electro-voice 671BL microphone.
Recordings will take place in a quiet atmosphere, in order to eliminate interference from background noise.
The English measurements are taken from some previous studies that depended on the same kind of measurement strategy.
Ten native speakers of the Sorani dialect (5 males and 5 females) participated in this experiment.
All speakers are between 20 and 50 years of age, were born in Sulaimanyiah, migrated to the US, and remain in the US
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gharib, Hibah Ismail. 2018. An acoustic description of stop consonants and vowels in Sorani Kurdish and English. Journal of the College of Languages،Vol. 2018, no. 37, pp.140-154.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-839037
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gharib, Hibah Ismail. An acoustic description of stop consonants and vowels in Sorani Kurdish and English. Journal of the College of Languages No. 37 (2018), pp.140-154.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-839037
American Medical Association (AMA)
Gharib, Hibah Ismail. An acoustic description of stop consonants and vowels in Sorani Kurdish and English. Journal of the College of Languages. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 37, pp.140-154.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-839037
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 154
Record ID
BIM-839037