TY - JOUR
T1 - Vowel systems of quantity languages compared
T2 - 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
AU - Rosenhouse, Judith
AU - Amir, Noam
AU - Amir, Ofer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Acoustical Society of America.
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - Arabic is a quantity language: it distinguishes short vs. long phonemes. Little literature exists about CA (Collquial Arabic) dialects & CAI (CA in Israel). Here we discuss F1, F2, and durations of vowels of recorded word lists read within a carrying sentence by 40 adult Muslim speakers of two North (GD) and Center (MD) rural CAI dialects. The findings are compared with other dialects and languages. The CAI findings reveal: 1. Short vowels' vowel spaces are smaller and more concentrated than long vowels' spaces. 2. Long vowels are more stable than short vowels. 3. Significant duration differences exist between short and long vowels (GD & MD). 4. The differences vary by vowels, dialects and genders. Our findings are discussed with relation to data of some other CA dialects (Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian and Moroccan), quantity (English, French, German, Swedish and Hungarian) and non-quantity (Hebrew, Spanish) languages.
AB - Arabic is a quantity language: it distinguishes short vs. long phonemes. Little literature exists about CA (Collquial Arabic) dialects & CAI (CA in Israel). Here we discuss F1, F2, and durations of vowels of recorded word lists read within a carrying sentence by 40 adult Muslim speakers of two North (GD) and Center (MD) rural CAI dialects. The findings are compared with other dialects and languages. The CAI findings reveal: 1. Short vowels' vowel spaces are smaller and more concentrated than long vowels' spaces. 2. Long vowels are more stable than short vowels. 3. Significant duration differences exist between short and long vowels (GD & MD). 4. The differences vary by vowels, dialects and genders. Our findings are discussed with relation to data of some other CA dialects (Palestinian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian and Moroccan), quantity (English, French, German, Swedish and Hungarian) and non-quantity (Hebrew, Spanish) languages.
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U2 - 10.1121/1.4880205
DO - 10.1121/1.4880205
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AN - SCOPUS:84919348690
SN - 1939-800X
VL - 21
JO - Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
JF - Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
IS - 1
M1 - 4aSC5
Y2 - 5 May 2014 through 9 May 2014
ER -