Acquisition of Syllable Structure in Jordanian Arabic

Mashaqba, Bassil; Al-Shdifat, Khalid G.; Huneety, Anas; Alhala, Mais Abu

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“…Overall, these observations highlight the specific speech sound Although certain error patterns, such as weak syllable deletion and cluster reduction, are universal (Ayyad, 2011;Bauman-Waengler, 2008;Mashaqba et al, 2019;So & Dodd, 1995), specific errors are language-specific. For instance, in this study, the production of emphatics, gutturals, and geminates poses a challenge to Arabic-speaking children.…”

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“…For example, in the word madrasa (school), the consonant in the coda position is deleted, resulting in ma.ra.sa. Consonant deletion primarily affects consonants in the coda position due to the obligatory nature of onsets in Arabic syllable structure (Mashaqba et al, 2019;Watson, 2002). It is worth noting that no instances of coda deletion were reported in the TD were in polysyllabic words.…”

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“…It is worth noting that no instances of coda deletion were reported in the TD were in polysyllabic words. Thus, word shape is an important factor in the diagnosis of children with phonological disorders because a phonologically disordered child may do well in preserving the syllables in mono-and disyllabic words but not in polysyllabic words (Mashaqba et al, 2019). While TD Jordanian children aged (3-4;6) omitted weak syllables in multisyllabic words, the oldest group (4;7-5) had no cases of weak syllable deletion.…”

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Assessing the Phonological Abilities of Jordanian Arabic-speaking Children with Phonological Disorders

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Objectives: This study investigated the validity of four language measures, i.e., phonological mean length of utterance (PMLU), the proportion of whole-word proximity (PWP), the proportion of whole-word correctness (PWC), and percentage of correct consonants, in assessing phonological development in Jordanian Arabic (JA) speaking children with phonological disorders in comparison with typically developing (TD) children.Methods: The study involved 88 monolingual JA-speaking children within the age range of 5 to 6 years, with 44 children diagnosed with phonological disorders and 44 TD children. Each group was further categorized into two age groups, namely 5;0-5;6 and 5,7-6,0. Data were gathered by observing the interactions between the children and their caregivers or parents using age-appropriate toys. A minimum of 100 utterances were collected from each participant.Results: The study found that TD children performed better than the children with phonological disorders on all measures, indicating delayed phonological performance in the phonological disorders group. Positive correlations between the measures were also observed, indicating their ability to provide significant information about children’s phonological abilities. Specific speech sound errors and substitution patterns exhibited by children with phonological disorders were identified, highlighting the motor control and articulatory challenges experienced by this group. Age was found to be a significant factor in the development of TD children, while children with phonological disorders showed similar scores across different age groups.Conclusion: These findings support the usage of the four measures for understanding phonological development in children with phonological disorders, accurately diagnosing them and tracking their progress.

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“…They found that in some Arabic dialects, the syllable final gutturals are avoided in these dialects by a metathesis process, resulting in an onset clustering. Likewise, Mshaqba et al . (2019) addressed the early word syllable structure and the remarkable phonological processes in the speech of Jordanian Arabic (JA)-speaking children.…”

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Phonological metathesis phenomenon in the early speech of Arabic-speaking children

Qasem

2023

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the phonological metathesis phenomenon in the early speech of Arabic-speaking children. Based on analysis of a longitudinal data from 11 children's speech, the study mainly aims at investigating (1) the characteristics/nature of the phonological metathesis process in early child speech and (2) how it is different from adult phonological metathesis. The study explores the causes behind the metathesis phonological process in child speech.Design/methodology/approach This paper explored the phonological metathesis phenomenon based on a longitudinal study of 11 monolingual Arabic speakers of Yemeni-Ibbi Dialect (YIA) and cross-linguistic data from various languages.FindingsThe data analysis showed that metathesis phenomenon in child speech has several characteristics. It occurs at an early age, at 2 years and decreases with age. It was found that metathesis occurs mostly in disyllabic and trisyllabic words or more complex syllabic words, but metathesis rarely occurs in monosyllabic words in children's speech. The results indicated that unlike metathesis in adult speech, metathesis in children's speech occurs in undeliberate, slow, fast speech. The study explored that adjacency of sounds with similar phonological features, the ease of pronunciation, or the sonority effect are the motivations that trigger metathesis phenomenon to occur in child speech.Originality/valueIn the literature, the metathesis phonological process has got a little attention from researchers, and this is due to the rare cases of metathesis and the inconsistency of cases and the occurrence of metathesis. However, there is no consensus among the researchers about the causes of emergence and the occurrences behind the metathesis process. However, this study argues that the metathesis process has unique characteristics in child speech in comparison to adult speech and that there are some causes for metathesis to occur in human speech particularly in children's data such as adjacency of sounds with similar phonological features or sonority effect.

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“…, plus a coda. Onset is an obligatory component in Arabic syllable structure, and thus in the case of onsetless syllables the prosthetic glottal stop/ʔ/ surfaces before utterance-initial syllables (cf Watson 2002;Huneety 2015;Mashaqba et al, 2019)…”

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Phonological aspects of al-Issa Arabic, a Bedouin dialect in the north of Jordan

Huneety

Mashaqba

Hula

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This study offers an account of selected key phonological aspects of al-Issa Arabic, spoken in three villages in al Mafraq: Ad-Dafyana, Mansiyat al-Gublan and Um As-srab. Forty suitable participants plus four language consultants were recruited. The dialect has a number of distinguishing features that make it stand out from the rest of Bedouin Jordanian Arabic dialects, e.g. the Bani Saxar dialect (Palva 1980), Bani Ḥassan dialect (Irshied 1984), Abb adi dialect (Sakarna 1999), and Wadi Ramm Arabic (Mashaqba 2015). These features include the unlimited affrication of *k, the realization of the palato-alveolar/j/ as [y] in all word positions (yaʔyaʔa phenomenon), and the unconditioned retention of Classical Arabic diphthongs *aw and *ay in all contexts. In terms of syllable structure, the core syllable types observed are: CV, CVC, CVV, CVVC, CCVVC, CVC 1 C 1, and C 1 C 2 VVC. There is a strong ban against C 1 C 2 C 3 and C 1 C 2 coda clusters in the dialect. Following Kiparsky's ( 2003) typological classification, the dialect is a VC-dialect where a vowel is inserted between C 1 and C 2 in C 1 C 2 C 3 clusters. To avoid gutturals in coda positions, the dialect exhibits of the gahawa syndrome where CVG.CV underlying forms are attested as CV.Ga.CV. Stress is predictable in the vast majority of forms and is controlled by a trochaic foot ('CV.CVC). Stress falls on the right-most heavy syllable in the last three syllables. Where a word lacks a heavy syllable, it falls on the antepenultimate, or a penultimate in two syllable words. However, stress assignment interacts with epenthesis and the gahawa syndrome: the inserted vowel attracts the main stress in the absence of an ultimate heavy syllable.

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Acquisition of Syllable Structure in Jordanian Arabic

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Assessing the Phonological Abilities of Jordanian Arabic-speaking Children with Phonological Disorders

Assessing the Phonological Abilities of Jordanian Arabic-speaking Children with Phonological Disorders

Phonological metathesis phenomenon in the early speech of Arabic-speaking children

Phonological aspects of al-Issa Arabic, a Bedouin dialect in the north of Jordan

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