Papers by Bushra Zawaydeh
BBN/AUB DARPA Babylon Levantine Arabic Speech and Transcripts
The Names of Afghanistan: Understanding Pushto and Dari Names
Presentation, Basis Technology Government Users …, 2009
... ﷲاﺪﺳا نﺎﺧ • Engineer Zafar Khan ïº®ï»¨ï»´ïº ï»§Ø§ ﺮﻔﻇ نﺎﺧ Page 21. 21 Honorific Titles • Religious, roya... more ... ﷲاﺪﺳا نﺎﺧ • Engineer Zafar Khan ïº®ï»¨ï»´ïº ï»§Ø§ ﺮﻔﻇ نﺎﺧ Page 21. 21 Honorific Titles • Religious, royal, occupational, and military honorific titles could precede the name, and be confused to be the name: - Agha اغآ Mister - Mullah الم title given to Muslim clerics - Khoja هجاوخ Lord ...
THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN (E), 2000
MYERS, James. 1993. A processing model of phonological rule application.
as a secondary articulation is defined as the retraction of the back
Uvularization Spread in Arabic
This paper examines the localization of contrasts in the uvularized quality in the speech of Amma... more This paper examines the localization of contrasts in the uvularized quality in the speech of Ammani Jordanian Arabic. Phonological analyses have noted that certain coronal consonants, traditionally called 'emphatics', are accompanied by an uvularized quality to vowels located in various parts of the word in which they appear. This paper reports three experiments which examine the degree to which this uvularized quality is reflected in various vocalic positions with respect to the triggering consonant. These experiments find the greatest amount of uvularization on the vowel following the triggering con-sonants, somewhat less uvularization in vowels which precede the trigger by at least three syllables, and somewhat less uvularization in vowels which appear more than two vowels after the trigger. All of these vowels are significantly different from those in words without an emphatic trigger. In addi-tion, the effects of various high segments on the spreading of the uvularized ...
Proceeds. of the XIV ICPhS, San Francisco, 1999
This paper examines vowel duration interactions between quantity, voicing of a neighboring obstru... more This paper examines vowel duration interactions between quantity, voicing of a neighboring obstruent, and stress i n Arabic. We found that quantity effects are the strongest, while voicing effects are the weakest. Stress interacts with quantity, such that long vowels are lengthened more with stress, but stress and voicing do not interact consistently. Similarly, phonological focus on voicing contrasts has no effect o n voicing lengthening, while phonological focus on quantity contrasts showed a trend towards expanding quantity differences. These results suggest that quantity lengthening i s phonologically salient, while voicing lengthening is not. Also, focus and stress, while similar are not entirely identical in phonetic effect.
Experimental evidence for abstract phonotactic constraints
The interaction of the phonetics and phonology of gutturals
Phonetic Interpretation Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, 2004
A cross-modal priming experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that lexical access of verb... more A cross-modal priming experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that lexical access of verbs marked with a specific inflectional suffix would be facilitated by immediately prior exposure to semantically and contextually unrelated verbs with the same suffix. It was hypothesized that while listening to spoken "-ed" sentences, subjects would respond more quickly to target words in the "-ed" form than in the "-s" or bare root form. Subjects were 15 university students, all native speakers of English, who responded to 60 visually presented target words, all based on one-syllable verb roots, while listening to aurally presented sentences of two types, one with and one without "-ed" verb morphology to provide a past tense environment. The predicted priming did not occur. Instead, bare root forms showed an absolute advantage over inflected forms in this experimental paradigm. However, an unanticipated finding was that responses to inflected forms were affected by the kind of discourse that was being attended to auditorily at the time of the visual lexical decision. There was no such effect of discourse context on responses on uninflected verbs. Results lend some support to the view that inflection triggers discourse integration. Contains 37 references. (MSE) A cross-modal priming experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that lexical access of verbs marked with a specific inflectional suffix would be facilitated by immediately prior exposure to semantically and contextually unrelated verbs with the same suffix. Such priming was not detected. Rather it turned out that bare root forms showed an absolute advantage over inflected forms in this experimental paradigm.
Janet C. E. Watson (2002). The phonology and morphology of Arabic. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. v+307
Phonology, 2003
Design and evaluation of a limited two-way speech translator
... A block diagram of the system is shown in Figure 1. The operator's speech is cap... more ... A block diagram of the system is shown in Figure 1. The operator's speech is captured by a ... Thesystem extracts from the chart the longest parsed constituent that has a meaning of the desired type. ... This model is similar to that of Nymble [3], a statistical name-finding system. ...
on Stress, duration, and intonation in Arabic word-level prosody
On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects
... Glover, Bonnie. 1988. The Morphophonology of Muscat Arabic. Ph. ... Ms., Rutgers University a... more ... Glover, Bonnie. 1988. The Morphophonology of Muscat Arabic. Ph. ... Ms., Rutgers University and University of Colorado at Boulder. Wiltshire, Caroline. 1994." Alignment in Cairene Arabic". West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 13: 138-153. Yearly, Jennifer. ...
Arabic Hypocoristics and the Status of the Consonantal Root
Linguistic Inquiry, Jul 1, 2001
There is currently a controversy regarding the lexical (morphemic) status of the consonantal root... more There is currently a controversy regarding the lexical (morphemic) status of the consonantal root in the Semitic languages. Bat-El (1994) and Ratcliffe (1997) have argued against the lexical status of the con-sonantal root in Hebrew and Arabic, respectively. However, Prunet, ...
An acoustic analysis of uvularization spread in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic
published or submitted for publication is peer reviewed
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2002
Emergent phonotactic generalizations in English and Arabic
Typological Studies in Language, 2001
... that the accept-ability thresholds would be different for speakers with different size lexico... more ... that the accept-ability thresholds would be different for speakers with different size lexicons. ... We find that participants with relatively larger mental lexicons are more likely to judge low ... as well-formed, suggesting that well-formedness is determined by a lexicon-based probability ...
On an Optimality-Theoretic Account of Epenthesis and Syncope in Arabic Dialects
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1997
... Glover, Bonnie. 1988. The Morphophonology of Muscat Arabic. Ph. ... Ms., Rutgers University a... more ... Glover, Bonnie. 1988. The Morphophonology of Muscat Arabic. Ph. ... Ms., Rutgers University and University of Colorado at Boulder. Wiltshire, Caroline. 1994." Alignment in Cairene Arabic". West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 13: 138-153. Yearly, Jennifer. ...
Hypocoristic Formation in Ammani-Jordanian Arabic
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1999
The study of hypocoristics (nicknames) has played an important role in the refinement of various ... more The study of hypocoristics (nicknames) has played an important role in the refinement of various aspects of nonlinear phonology as well as in recent developments within optimality theory. For example, in the area of tonal phonology, Newman & Ahmad (1992) show that ...
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