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Some aspects of Arabic duration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Fares Mitleb
Fares Mitleb
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Department of English, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
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The study of the temporal organization of spoken language has developed greatly over the past three decades. Segment based analyses, such as that of Chomsky & Halle (1968) looked at temporal patterns and other physical properties of speech as being “supplied by universal rules.” However, several researchers have published experimental evidence which indicates that temporal differences do exist between languages and have to be learned (Lehiste 1970, 1984, 1987, Port, Al-Ani & Maeda 1980, Keating 1979, Flege 1979, Flege & Port 1981, Mitleb 1984a, 1984b).

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 22 , Issue 1-2 , June 1992 , pp. 27 - 34
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1992

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