F0 Peak Alignment, F0 Peak Location, and Focus Perception in Taif Arabic

Alzaidi, Muhammad Swaileh A.

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“…Urban HA is spoken in the cities of Makkah, Madinah, Jeddah, and Taif". Many researchers, such as Ahyad & Becker (2020), Alqahtani & Sandreson (2019), Alzaidi, Y. Xu & A. Xu (2019), Alwazna (2020), and Alzaidi (2018), have examined the UHA dialect in relation to various topics. However, the concept of reduplication in the Makkah, Madinah, and Jeddah dialects has received little discussion in the literature (cf.…”

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Reduplication in Urban Hijazi Arabic Dialect Spoken in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia

Kabli¹

2023

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This study focuses on trilateral reduplicated roots (CVCC), such as laff “wrap’”, and quadrilateral duplicated roots (CVCCVC), like waswas “whisper” and their reduplicated counterparts of the type C1VC2CC1VCc21 and C1VC2C1VC2 in the Urban Hijazi Arabic dialect (UHA dialect). This research centers on reduplication in the UHA dialect as a total duplication. Semantically, reduplication in this dialect displays three main functions: 1) intensifying reduplication, as in adjectives; 2) emphatic reduplication, as in nouns; and 3) iterative reduplication, as in verbs. The data were collected using interviews with native speakers of the UHA dialect via Blackboard and face-to-face meetings. The analysis of the data shows that sometimes the C1VC2C1VC2 pattern is a duplication at the surface level (i.e., pseudo-reduplication) because it has a genuine root and is underived from the trilateral roots whereas others are derived from trilateral roots and undergo the process of duplication. However, the C1VC2CC1VCC2 pattern shows that the second syllable is a copy of the original root. Nevertheless, both patterns show similar functions of reduplication in verbs, nouns, and adjectives. In addition, they reveal a similar derivational mechanism in changing parts of speech by adding the prefix y- to the verb, the prefix mu- to the adjective, and the suffix -a to the noun. In conclusion, this study confirms that not all quadrilateral duplicates originated from trilateral reduplicated roots. Also, the results are in line with the Basra linguists’ claims that roots in the Arabic language can be trilateral, quadrilateral, and so on.

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Reduplication in Urban Hijazi Arabic Dialect Spoken in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia

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2023

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Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study

Alzaidi

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Makkan Arabic does not have post-focus compression: a production and perception study

Alzaidi

2022

Phonetica

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Post-focus compression (PFC), in which words following focus are compressed in F 0 and intensity, is recently found to be effective in encoding focus. Recent studies find that PFC is present in Egyptian, Hijazi and Lebanese Arabic, and hence they are classified as +PFC languages. However, there are languages from the same family language which differ mainly in terms of the presence and absence of PFC. The current study investigated the production and perception of prosodic focus marking in Makkan Arabic, an under-researched Arabic dialect. Systematic acoustic analyses and statistical tests show that (a) the on-focus word is realized by expanding the excursion size, increasing the F 0 and strengthening the intensity of its stressed syllable, (b) information and contrastive focus are not prosodically distinguishable, (c) Makkan Arabic lacks PFC, and (d) focus recognition is low compared to Hijazi Arabic (+PFC), Taiwanese and Taiwan Mandarin (other −PFC languages). The new findings, taken together with recent findings, suggest that (1) the prosodic encoding of focus is different across Arabic dialects productively and perceptually, and (2) the on-focus raising is not a sufficient factor in recognizing prosodic cues to focus. These results contribute to broadening our understanding of different prosodic focus markings cross-linguistically and cross-dialectally.

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F0 Peak Alignment, F0 Peak Location, and Focus Perception in Taif Arabic

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Reduplication in Urban Hijazi Arabic Dialect Spoken in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia

Reduplication in Urban Hijazi Arabic Dialect Spoken in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia

Analysis and computational modelling of Emirati Arabic intonation – A preliminary study

Makkan Arabic does not have post-focus compression: a production and perception study

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