Lexical Stress Variation in Arabic: An Acoustic Spectrographic Analysis

Lexical Stress Variation in Arabic: An Acoustic Spectrographic Analysis

Salman H. Al-Ani (Indiana University, Bloomington)

Abstract

The author is conducting a series of experiments using the MacSpeech Lab II on stress and prosody in Arabic. This is the first article in the series. The analysis and results reported here are based on the experiment of kitāb/kātib (book/writer) recorded in isolation.

Keywords

Arabic language, lexical stress