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Effects of Gender on Emphasis Production in Jordanian Arabic: A Socio-Phonetic Study

Ibrahim Eshlash Odeh Almomany

This article investigates the effects of gender on two emphatic sounds, namely [sˤ] and [tˤ], in Ajlouni-Jordanian Arabic, a sub-dialect of Rural Jordanian Arabic. The study was mainly motivated by the relatively small literature on the bearing(s) of gender on emphasis production in Jordanian Arabic ...

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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 ...

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