TY - GEN
T1 - Emphatic segments and emphasis spread in Lebanese Arabic : a real-time magnetic resonance imaging study
AU - Israel, Assaf
AU - Proctor, Michael
AU - Goldstein, Louis
AU - Iskarous, Khalil
AU - Narayanan, Skrikanth
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - ![CDATA[Production of emphatic consonants by a speaker of Lebanese Arabic was examined using real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI). Emphatic consonants were found to be articulated with a lowered, more retracted tongue body than their non-emphatic counterparts, with the narrowest emphatic constriction observed in the upper pharynx. Both progressive and regressive emphasis spread was observed; spreading was not blocked by an intervening palatal approximant [j]. Emphaticized segments exhibit similar retraction and depression, with magnitudes that vary depending on the direction of spreading. These data suggest that emphasis spread may operate in a phonetically complex way, not currently accounted for by phonological theory, and in addition, illustrate the advantage of real-time MRI as a method for studying emphasis in Semitic phonology.]]
AB - ![CDATA[Production of emphatic consonants by a speaker of Lebanese Arabic was examined using real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI). Emphatic consonants were found to be articulated with a lowered, more retracted tongue body than their non-emphatic counterparts, with the narrowest emphatic constriction observed in the upper pharynx. Both progressive and regressive emphasis spread was observed; spreading was not blocked by an intervening palatal approximant [j]. Emphaticized segments exhibit similar retraction and depression, with magnitudes that vary depending on the direction of spreading. These data suggest that emphasis spread may operate in a phonetically complex way, not currently accounted for by phonological theory, and in addition, illustrate the advantage of real-time MRI as a method for studying emphasis in Semitic phonology.]]
KW - consonants
KW - Arabic language
KW - emphasis (linguistics)
KW - magnetic resonance imaging
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/524954
UR - http://interspeech2012.org/
M3 - Conference Paper
BT - Interspeech 2012: Spoken Language Processing and Biomedicine: 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association : September 9-13, 2012, Portland, Oregon
PB - International Speech Communication Association
T2 - International Speech Communication Association. Conference
Y2 - 9 September 2012
ER -