F0 peak alignment in Moroccan Arabic polar questions

Sam Hellmuth; Rana Alhussein Almbark; Basma Chlaihani; Nabila Louriz

F0 peak alignment in Moroccan Arabic polar questions

Sam Hellmuth, Rana Alhussein Almbark, Basma Chlaihani, Nabila Louriz

Language and Linguistic Science

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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.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	18th International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Aug 2015 → 14 Aug 2015

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Conference	18th International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	10/08/15 → 14/08/15

Keywords

Moroccan Arabic
prosody
peak alignment
phonetics
questions

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IVAr: Intonational Variation in Arabic
Hellmuth, S. (Principal investigator) & Alhussein Almbark, R. (Researcher)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC)
1/04/11 → 30/06/17
Project: Research project (funded) › Research

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