Emphatic Segments and Emphasis Spread in Rural Jordanian Arabic

Abstract

This paper attempts to provide an analysis of emphasis spread in Juff n

The Typology of Pharyngealization in Arabic Dialects Focusing on a Rural Jordanian Variety

“…The crucial point here is that the syllable is the basic, but not the only, domain of emphasis. This is also the case in three Jordanian subvarieties: Kufr El-ma' (Bani-Yasin & Owens 1987), Wadi Ramm (Al-Mashaqba 2015), and Juffin (Huneety & Mashaqba 2016). The syllable, however, is reported to be the only domain of ES in Moroccan Arabic (Sayed 1981 This diagram, according to Sayed, shows that the presence of an underlying emphatic in a syllable entails the assignment of the [+emphatic] feature to the node dominating that emphatic segment and the spread of that feature to the rest of the segments that are dominated by the same syllable node.…”

Geminate Acquisition and Representation by Ammani Arabic-Speaking Children

“…The emphatic plosives /t/, and /d/ were excluded because their articulation involves a complex co-articulation (the so-called pharyngealization) which results in a delay of their correct production by AA-speaking children. For details on emphatic consonants in Jordanian Arabic dialects, refer to Al-Masri and Jongman (2004), Al-Tamimi, Alzoubi and Tarawnah (2009), and Huneety and Mashaqba (2016a). The selection of the two groups (a subgroup of obstruents vs. a subgroup of sonorants) was particularly motivated by the assumption that manner (closure) of articulation affects geminate production (for details, refer to §2), bearing in mind that plosives are acquired earlier than liquids (McLeod and Crowe 2018).…”

Gutturals, emphatics, and the phenomenon of emphasis spread in Fallaahi Jordanian Arabic: A non- linear analysis

“…Several Linguists have agreed that there are at least four emphatic/pharyngealized coronal consonant sounds in Arabic language; these are /T/, /dˤ/, /S/, and /D/ (McCarthy, 1994;Davis, 1995;Sakarna, 1999;Watson, 2002;Huneety & Mashaqba, 2016;Jaber et al, 2019), among others. These linguists have also recognized four pairs of contrasting non-emphatic consonants: /t, T/, /d, dˤ/, /s, S/, and /ð, D/.…”

“…By contrast, in Tunisian Arabic (Ghazali, 1977) and in Palestinian Arabic (Herzallah, 1990), the source of emphasis is the whole word. And in some dialects, emphasis is blocked by certain morphemes or certain high vowels and consonants (Davis, 1993;Watson, 2002;Algryani, 2014;Huneety & Mashaqba, 2016).…”

“…Many linguists have investigated the nature of gutturals, emphatics and emphasis spread in different Arabic dialects, such as (Ladefoged, 1993;Kenstowitcz, 1994;McCarthy. 1988;Watson, 2002;Rakhieh, 2009;Mashaqba, 2015;Huneety & Mashaqba, 2016;Al-Bataieneh, 2019;Jaber et al, 2019), among others. the laryngeals /h, ?/, the pharyngeals /ħ, ʕ/, and the uvulars /x, ʁ/.…”