Pharyngealization Effects in the Jordanian Arabic Dialect

القسم: Research Paper
منشور
Sep 1, 2025
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38-50

الملخص

Pharyngealized coronal consonants, or emphatics, are distinctive phonological phenomena in Arabic dialects. A word with an underlying emphatic consonant, pharyngealization, or emphasis, usually spreads to neighboring consonants. This study aims to ascertain whether the Jordanian Arabic (henceforth JA) pharyngealized coronal sounds carry over this emphasis to adjacent sounds across word boundaries. It examines how coronal sounds behave differently in the JA, especially how they are pharyngealized in patterns that may differ greatly from those in the Arabic Mother Tongue, known as Standard Arabic (henceforth SA). The study uses feature geometry as its theoretical framework for data analysis, based on McCarthy''s (1991) model, which was then improved by Vaux (1993) as cited in Mahadin and Bader (1995). Thus the model utilized in the current study is the one proposed by McCarthy and then modified by Vaux. By investigating this phenomenon, the study demonstrates that JA''s phonological techniques differ from the ones found in the SA and advances our understanding of how pharyngealization works in this language.

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كيفية الاقتباس

Ahmed Saleh Khalaf Alhiyali, W., & Hammoodi Saeed AlMalla Abdullah, A. (2025). Pharyngealization Effects in the Jordanian Arabic Dialect. اداب الرافدين, 55(102), 38–50. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2025.156049.2289