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Bassil Mashaqba; Farah Hadban – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study aims at investigating the phonological development of the six guttural consonants of Jordanian Arabic, /[chi]/, /[voiced uvular fricative]/, /[voiceless pharyngeal fricative]/, /[voiced pharyngeal fricative]/, /[glottal stop]/, and /h/. Method: An articulation test is designed to involve two tasks: picture naming and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Phonological Awareness, Phonemes
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Mashaqba, Bassil; Daoud, Aya; Zuraiq, Wael; Huneety, Anas – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
This article investigates the production of the emphatic consonants /?, ?, ?/ by typically developing Jordanian children. Sixty typically developing monolingual Ammani Arabic-speaking children (30 boys and 30 girls) with ages ranging from 2 to 7;11 years were recruited in a production experiment. In the experiment, they were asked to produce 18…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Arabic, Phonemes, Preschool Children
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Jaradat, Muneera – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The study aims to investigate guttural and emphatic sounds and the phenomenon of emphasis spread in Fallaahi Jordanian Arabic (FJA), a rural Jordanian dialect spoken in the north of Jordan. The study uses a non-linear approach, namely, the feature geometry approach to represent guttural and emphatic sounds and the phenomenon of emphasis spread.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semitic Languages, Rural Areas, Dialects