Aspects of Pharyngealized Phonemes in Arabic Using Articulography

Slim Ouni (1)

1 PAROLE - Analysis, perception and recognition of speech

In this paper, we present preliminary results of an articulatory study of pharyngealized phonemes in Arabic using an electromagnetic articulograph (AG500). We compared the articulations of pharyngealized phonemes to non-pharyngealized ones. The articulation of the tongue was tracked by four sensors glued onto the tongue. A corpus of several CVCVCVs was recorded using the AG500, labeled, and analyzed. The main finding of this work is that while the main articulation of the tongue is actually moving towards a dental position, the secondary articulation of backing of the tongue can be observed.

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation; Informatique; Linguistique; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Slim Ouni. Aspects of Pharyngealized Phonemes in Arabic Using Articulography. Interspeech, Sep 2008, Brisbane, Australia. pp.FriSe3.P4-6. ⟨hal-00327676⟩