scholarly journals The Behavior and Representation of Geminate Consonants in Moroccan Arabic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 53-83
Author(s):  
Noamane A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Moroccan Arabic

The present paper explores the special behavior of geminate consonants in Moroccan Arabic vis-á-vis short consonants and consonant clusters. By way of comparison, it is shown that geminates exhibit properties that are reminiscent of both unit structures and cluster structures. In particular, we reveal that geminates in MA demonstrate an inconsistent behavior in relation to the process of schwa epenthesis. In this context, we ask whether geminates get split up in MA, and when and how that happens. In order to characterize the patterning of geminates in MA, different phonological representations of geminates are examined against the variable behavior of geminates. On this basis, it is eventually suggested that geminates should be depicted as two root nodes that are underlyingly associated with a mora at the prosodic level.

scholarly journals Total Assimilation in Persian Phonology: A Modified Contrastive Specification Account

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 250-259
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hajimohammad ◽  
Batool Alinezhad ◽  
Adel Rafiei
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Active Process ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Phonological Features ◽  
Assimilation Process ◽  
Manner Of Articulation ◽  
Specification Theory

Nowadays the main stream in the most fields of linguistics including phonology is minimalism and redundancy removing, which derives from the principle of the economy of language. The advent of under specification theory in the late 19th century can be considered as the beginning of redundancy removing in the domain of phonology. During recent decades different versions of under specification such as Radical Under specification, Contrastive Specification and Modified Contrastive Specification (MCS) have been presented. Modified Contrastive Specification (MCS), which is the finding of Toronto Phonology School is based on Contrastive Hypothesis in which a contrastive hierarchy is applied to specify the contrastive features. It is believed that only contrastive features are specified in phonological representations and redundant values never exist in underlying representations. This paper aims to present a novel analysis of total assimilation process in terms of the manner of articulation in consonant clusters having the structures of –st and –zd in Persian which is an active process in phonology of Persian. Working within the framework of the MCS, through drawing a contrastive hierarchy for phonological features, this paper leads to this conclusion that the feature [continuant] in Persian consonants is a contrastive feature so by spreading this feature, the coronal stops /t/, /d/ assimilate to fricatives /s/ and /z/ respectively. To represent contrast and markedness in this system, we have proposed a contrastive hierarchy of [son] > [lab] > [cont]> [voiced] for consonants involved in the process of total assimilation in Persian.

scholarly journals Dynamic invariance in the phonetic expression of syllable structure: a case study of Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters

Phonology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason A. Shaw ◽  
Adamantios I. Gafos ◽  
Philip Hoole ◽  
Chakir Zeroual
Keyword(s):  
Syllable Structure ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Electromagnetic Articulography ◽  
Moroccan Arabic

We asked whether invariant phonetic indices for syllable structure can be identified in a language where word-initial consonant clusters, regardless of their sonority profile, are claimed to be parsed heterosyllabically. Four speakers of Moroccan Arabic were recorded, using Electromagnetic Articulography. Pursuing previous work, we employed temporal diagnostics for syllable structure, consisting of static correspondences between any given phonological organisation and its presumed phonetic indices. We show that such correspondences offer only a partial understanding of the relation between syllabic organisation and continuous indices of that organisation. We analyse the failure of the diagnostics and put forth a new approach in which different phonological organisations prescribe different ways in which phonetic indices change as phonetic parameters are scaled. The main finding is that invariance is found in these patterns of change, rather than in static correspondences between phonological constructs and fixed values for their phonetic indices.

scholarly journals Stiffness and articulatory overlap in Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Kevin D. Roon ◽  
Philip Hoole ◽  
Chakir Zeroual ◽  
Shihao Du ◽  
Adamantios I. Gafos
Keyword(s):  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Moroccan Arabic

scholarly journals Temporal Coordination and Sonority of Jazani Arabic Word-Initial Clusters

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Q. Ruthan ◽  
Karthik Durvasula ◽  
Yen-Hwei Lin
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Pattern ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Syllable Structure ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Acoustic Measurements ◽  
Temporal Coordination ◽  
Arabic Word ◽  
Moroccan Arabic ◽  
Target Words

Previous research on the organization of syllable-structure, relying on the timing of the articulators suggests that though both English and Moroccan Arabic have word-initial consonant clusters, Moroccan Arabic does not have complex onsets, while English does (Browman and Goldstein, 1988; Byrd, 1995; Shaw et al., 2011). However, typically, such research employs expensive articulatory equipment. This limits the research to those who have access to such technology. Here, we advocate the use of the acoustic measurements with carefully selected stimuli. We conducted an experiment on 7 native speakers of Jazani Arabic, who produced 6 repetitions of 78 target words (34 real, 44 nonce), which varied in the number of onset consonant (C1, C2), and the sonority profiles. Similarly, to Moroccan Arabic, the results show that onset consonant alignments in Jazani Arabic are consistent with the simplex onset organization. Unlike Italian, the temporal pattern of Jazani Arabic remained the same, as simplex onsets across the sonority profiles. The study shows the effectiveness of acoustic measurements as a tool to understand syllabic organization, through studying the temporal co-ordination patterns.

Articulatory Rehearsal Is More Than Refreshing Memory Traces

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryoji Nishiyama ◽  
Jun Ukita
Keyword(s):  
Free Recall ◽  
Recall Performance ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Verbal Information ◽  
Free Recall Task ◽  
Study Item ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Memory Traces ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Serial Position Curves

This study examined whether additional articulatory rehearsal induced temporary durability of phonological representations, using a 10-s delayed nonword free recall task. Three experiments demonstrated that cumulative rehearsal between the offset of the last study item and the start of the filled delay (Experiments 1 and 3) and a fixed rehearsal of the immediate item during the subsequent interstimulus interval (Experiments 2 and 3) improved free recall performance. These results suggest that an additional rehearsal helps to stabilize phonological representations for a short period. Furthermore, the analyses of serial position curves suggested that the frequency of the articulation affected the durability of the phonological representation. The significance of these findings as clues of the mechanism maintaining verbal information (i.e., verbal working memory) is discussed.

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