An acoustic analysis of the rhythm of Yemeni Arabic

IF 0.2 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Nada Mohammed Abdo Salem, S. Pillai
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Abstract

Previous studies have found that different Arabic dialects display different degrees of stress-timing features forming a continuum that ranges from more stress-timed to less stress-timed Arabic dialects. This study investigated the vocalic durational intervals of speakers from two groups of speakers, Yemeni younger generation (YYG) and Yemeni older generation (YOG), both in reading and spontaneous speech by means of two indexes, namely, nPVI and Varco V. The results revealed that Yemeni speakers displayed stress-timing features in both the read passage and spontaneous speech. However, whereas the rhythmic patterns in read speech appeared to be comparable for both YYG and YOG speakers, significant differences were found in spontaneous speech, in terms of the nPVI and VarcoV measurements, where the rhythmic output of YYG speakers appeared to be more stress-timed than their older counterparts. The high values obtained by both indexes in the study show that YA patterns with prototypical stress-timed languages such as English, Dutch, Thai and the highly stress-timed western Arabic dialects.
也门阿拉伯语节奏的声学分析
先前的研究发现,不同的阿拉伯方言表现出不同程度的重音时间特征,形成了一个连续体,从重音时间多到重音时间少的阿拉伯方言。本研究采用nPVI和Varco v两项指标对也门年轻一代(YYG)和年长一代(YOG)两组说话者在阅读和自发言语中的语音持续时间间隔进行了研究。结果表明,也门说话者在阅读段落和自发言语中都表现出重音时序特征。然而,尽管YYG和YOG的说话者在阅读语言中的节奏模式似乎是相似的,但在自发语言中发现了显著的差异,就nPVI和VarcoV测量而言,YYG的说话者的节奏输出似乎比年长的说话者更有重音时间。研究中两个指标的高值表明,典型的重音时间语言(如英语、荷兰语、泰语)和高度重音时间的阿拉伯西部方言具有YA模式。
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