Syllables without vowels: phonetic and phonological evidence from Tashlhiyt Berber

Ridouane, Rachid

doi:10.1017/s0952675708001498

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“…MORPHOLOGY SYLLABIFICATION GLOSS Vowel a-man a.man 'water' Nasal n-ɡa n.ɡa 'we were' Liquid i-fl = t i .flt 'he left him' Voiced fricative t-ʁfl tʁ.fl 'she surprised' Voiceless fricative t-skr ts.kr 'she did' Voiced stop t-bdɡ tb.dɡ 'it was wet' Voiceless stop t-kti tk.ti 'she remembered' Dell & Elmedlaoui (2002) presented impressive evidence in favour of the above syllabification (see also Boukous 1987, Ridouane 2008, Fougeron & Ridouane 2008b, Ridouane, Hermes & Hall ⁄ e 2013. These include native speakers' intuitions and native judgments about well-formedness in versification, as well as insights into various morphological regularities captured by assuming the proposed syllabification of consonant clusters.…”

Section: Nucleus Typementioning

confidence: 99%

Tashlhiyt Berber

Ridouane¹

2014

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Berber (or Tamazight) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by an estimated 15–25 million in North Africa. It is mainly spoken in Morocco, Algeria, and by the Touareg population in Niger and Mali. Berber is also a native language of populations living in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt, though their numbers are less significant. Large Berber communities also live in Diasporas mainly in France, Spain, Holland, and Belgium. Three varieties of Berber are spoken in Morocco: Tarifit, spoken in northern Morocco, Tamazight, spoken in the Middle-Atlas, and Tashlhiyt, spoken in southern Morocco. Tashlhiyt, the variety presented here, is sufficiently homogeneous for all native speakers, who number an estimated 7–9 million, to communicate without difficulties (Stroomer 2008). There is nonetheless a measure of sub-dialectal variation, which affects mainly the way some stop consonants are produced. Three subsystems, corresponding roughly to three distinct geographical locations, can be identified: the ‘occlusive’ subsystem spoken in Agadir and its suburbs, the ‘fricative’ subsystem spoken mainly in the High-Atlas area, which spirantizes noncoronal obstruents /bkg/ in some contexts, and the ‘sibilant’ subsystem spoken in the Anti-Atlas area, where /t/ and /d/ are realized in some contexts as [s] and [z], respectively (Boukous 1994). This study is based on the speech of Tashlhiyt speakers who originate from Agadir. The text of ‘The North Wind and the Sun’ was read by a 27-year-old female speaker.

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Section: Nucleus Typementioning

confidence: 99%

Tashlhiyt Berber

Ridouane¹

2014

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…The association of accents with syllables might be reinterpreted in a gestural framework as a constraint that accentual gestures can be coupled only to vocalic gestures. However, vocalic gestures cannot be substituted wholesale for syllables because (1) syllables may contain multiple vocalic gestures (as in diphthongs), and (2) in some languages there appear to be syllables that lack vowels . Because gestural scores do not represent discretized time or grouping, there is no natural basis for counting syllables from the edge of the score.…”

Section: Classification Of Quantity‐insensitive Accentual Patternsmentioning

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Space and time in models of speech rhythm

Tilsen

2019

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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How do rhythmic patterns in speech arise? There are many representational frameworks for describing rhythmic patterns, but none of these directly connect representations to articulatory processes, which have physical manifestations in the acoustic signal. Here, a new model of speech rhythm is presented, one in which rhythmic patterns arise from spatial mechanisms that govern the organization of articulatory gestures. The roles of time and space in symbolic representations of the metrical structure are analyzed, and conventional understandings of stress and accent are called into question. One aspect of rhythmic patterns, in particular—the directionality of accentual patterns—is examined closely. A novel dynamical model is developed, which proposes a reinterpretation of directionality and other temporal phenomena in speech.

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“…In Tashlhiyt, it has been argued that the entire set of consonants may alternate between nuclear and non-nuclear positions (Dell and Elmedlaoui 1985, Boukous 1987and Ridouane 2008. A specific aspect of this language is that it does not allow for complex onsets.…”

Section: Acoustic Interaction Between Bilateral Piriform Fossaementioning

confidence: 99%