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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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This paper aims to explore socially-conditioned phonetic variation in speech production and perception in Moroccan Arabic (henceforth MA). The linguistic variant studied here is the low central vowel /a/. It is correlated with social factors; schooling and age are incorporated as independent variables which must reveal forms of variation on this vowel. Two studies, dealing with a list of 10 words which are Ca-Ca syllable type in MA, were conducted in apparent-time. The first study deals with durational measurements of these words produced by 32 pupils aged from 6 to 16 years. The second study investigates the perception of the same words by 32 MA pupils aged from 7 to 15.
Bibliographic reference. Embarki, Mohamed / Guilleminot, Christian (2003): "The moving boundaries of the first-acquired variety's phonological features: evidence from production/perception of Moroccan Arabic's vowels", In ICPhS-15, 639-642.