Hellmuth, Sam, Almbark, Rana, Chlaihani, Basma and Louriz, Nabila (2015) F0 peak alignment in Moroccan Arabic polar questions. In: Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. University of Glasgow. ISBN 9780852619414
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Abstract
This paper contributes phonetic evidence to ongoing debate regarding the position of Moroccan Arabic in prosodic typology, with the aim of determining how phrase-edge tonal events should be represented in the intonational phonology of the language. A salient phrase-final rise-fall tonal event, found in MA polar questions, is used as a case study. We examined the alignment of the f0 peak of this tonal movement, relative to potential landmarks in prosodic structure, in a set of 112 polar questions extracted from a corpus of read and spontaneous speech collected in Casablanca. A comparison of f0 peak alignment in tokens containing an unstressable final CV syllable vs. a stressable final CVC syllable suggests that the rise-fall tonal event observed in MA polar questions is best understood as a pitch accent marking prominence at the phrasal level.
Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages |
Schools: | School of Music, Humanities and Media |
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Depositing User: | Rana Alhussein Almbark |
Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2016 08:59 |
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2021 17:13 |
URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/28139 |
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