الممارسات اللّغويّة
Volume 14, Numéro 1, Pages 315-339
2023-04-20
The Effect Of Gender On The Voiceless Emphatic Stop In Arabic-french Code-switching: An Acoustic Study On Oran Spoken Arabic
Authors : Salem Nesrine . Sebane Zoubida .
Abstract
The current proposed paper is an attempt to cast light on the sociophonetic behavior of one of the emphatic sounds, the voiceless stop /tˤ/, in Oran Spoken Arabic as produced by male and female speakers. Besides, it aims to pinpoint the effect of this Arabic phonetic property on the realization of the French voiceless stop sound during the code-switching process. To this end, 10 young native speakers of Oran Spoken Arabic were recorded. The acoustic experiment drew upon various measurements including VOT, vowel duration, and vowel first three formant frequencies. The normalized data showed that, unlike many Arabic dialects where male speakers produce stronger emphasis than females, gender as a social factor does not appear to affect emphasis production in Oran speech community. /tˤ/ sound was produced in both male and female speech in a similar fashion. Besides, emphasis was found to disrupt the realization of the French voiceless stop in both male and female speech.
Keywords
Gender ; voiceless emphatic stop sound ; Arabic-to-French code-switching ; Oran Spoken Arabic ; acoustics-based analysis
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