Hellmuth, Sam orcid.org/0000-0002-0062-904X, Alhussein Almbark, Rana, Chlaihani, Basma et al. (1 more author) (2015) F0 peak alignment in Moroccan Arabic polar questions. In: 18th International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 Aug 2015.
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.
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Keywords: | Moroccan Arabic, prosody, peak alignment, phonetics, questions | ||||
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Institution: | The University of York | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Pure (York) | ||||
Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2016 15:17 | ||||
Last Modified: | 04 Feb 2024 00:23 | ||||
Status: | Published | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
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