The timing structure of CVVC syllables
The timing structure of CVVC syllables
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CVVC音节的时序结构
DOI:
10.1075/cilt.130.11bro
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发表时间:
1995
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影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
R. Hsieh
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作者:
E. Broselow;M. Huffman;Su;R. Hsieh
This paper reports on an investigation of the timing properties of particular syllable types in different dialects of colloquial Arabic. Our data are productions of sentences containing CVV, CVC, and CVVC syllables recorded by four speakers from Cairo, Alexandria, Beirut, and Damascus. We focus particularly on word-internal CVVC syllables, which are permitted in the Lebanese and Syrian dialects, but not in the Egyptian dialects. Different versions of phonological theory make possible several competing analyses of the structure of CVVC syllables; we consider these competing representations and their match with the durational properties of segments within CVVC syllable rhymes. We argue that both the phonological and the durational data support an analysis of word-internal CVVC syllables in Arabic as bimoraic, with the final consonant sharing the second mora of the long vowel.