Sep 2026· Journal of Experimental Phonetics· 0 citations· 26 references
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Knowledge about vowel-related acoustic features and their role in gendered speech remains limited, especially in Hijazi Arabic. While dynamic analysis, particularly vowel-inherent spectral change, offers advantages, Arabic vowel studies have focused on single-point acoustic features. This study analyzes Hijazi Arabic vowels across genders. It examines F0, F1, F2, and duration using static and dynamic approaches, including trajectory direction, trajectory length, and rate of change. Data were collected from 20 native speakers producing vowels in different consonantal contexts. Measurements used one midpoint for static analysis and five points for dynamic analysis. Results show gender differences, with female speakers generally exhibiting higher F0 and formant values and longer durations. Dynamic features provided additional descriptive insights and improved classification accuracy by 6.6% across F0, F1, and F2, with F0 as the strongest predictor.
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A. Fuadi, Muhammad Albighani Alana, Rafli Raharja· Madah Jurnal Bahasa dan Sast...· 0 citations
The present study investigates how the variation of speech rate affects the acoustic cues across stop-vowel sequences in Bisha dialect (BD), an Arabic dialect spoken in the southern region of Saudi Arabia. Applying an acoustic approach, the study examines segmental duration (closure and following vowel), fundamental fr...
N. al-Gamdi· University of Tabuk Journal...· 0 citations
This study investigates the role of prosodic-acoustic features in distinguishing two inland varieties of Brazilian Portuguese, Paraíba (PB) and São Paulo (SP), and examines how these features influence automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance. Grounded in sociophonetic theory and dialect-aware speech modeling, th...
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Arabic emphatic consonants are primarily cued by coarticulatory effects on adjacent vowels, yet little is known about how these effects unfold across different vowels. This study examined the temporal dynamics of emphatic coarticulation in Saudi Hijazi Arabic across three vowel contexts (/iː/, /aː/, /uː/) and two manne...
Anwar Alkhudidi, T. Szalay, Rebecca Holt et al.· JASA Express Letters· 0 citations
This study highlights the importance of representation-level design for robust speech signal analysis under phonation-induced variability and supports the use of low-dimensional dynamic features for vowel modeling in variable phonation conditions.
