Acoustic Characteristics of Arabic Pharyngeal and Pharyngealized Consonants

Spectrographic data were examined in order to find an acoustic correlate for the classification of "emphatic" in traditional Arabic phonology. It was found that an emphatic consonant affects the steady state and transition of a preceding or following consonant. The upper pharyngeal / lower...

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Main Author: Boxberger, Linda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1981-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/559

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