Effects of Gender on the Production of Emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: A Sociophonetic Study
Emphasis, or pharyngealization, is a distinctive phonetic phenomenon and a phonemic feature of Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of gender on the production of emphasis in Jordanian Arabic as manifested on the consonants themselves as we...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8096 |