The Sociophonetics of Emphasis in Jordanian Arabic: Age and Gender

Ibrahim Eshlash Odeh Almomany

This paper investigates the bearings of both age and gender as social variables on the production of the two primary emphatics (i.e. [sˤ] vis-a-vis [tˤ]) in Ajlouni Jordanian Arabic, a variety of Rural Jordanian Arabic. Methods: This study adopted the variationist approach to interpret the findings ...