Perception and Production of Geminate Consonants by English Speakers and Kuwaiti Arabic Speakers
| dc.contributor.author | Rinaldi, Nina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-22T22:08:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-09-22T22:08:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-04 | |
| dc.description | 55 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Linguistics and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2014. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | By comparing the ability of English speakers and Kuwaiti Arabic speakers to perceive and reproduce a novel length contrast encoded in new words, the present study aimed to determine the implications of phonemic status of consonant length on perception and production. In a condition where long consonants were derived from singletons and paired with their natural counterparts (Natural S condition) English speakers were able to perceive the length contrast encoded in the stimuli some of the time. They did not, however, reproduce a length contrast. Kuwaiti Arabic speakers were able to discriminate the length contrast in the Natural S condition most of the time. In a condition where short consonants were derived from natural geminates and paired with their natural counterparts (Natural G condition), Kuwaiti Arabic speakers were able to discriminate the contrast almost all of the time. Kuwaiti Arabic speakers reproduced a length contrast in both conditions. Furthermore, for the Kuwaiti Arabic speakers, perceptual ability predicted the magnitude ofG:S duration ratio reproduced by the speaker. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/18293 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon thesis, Dept. of Linguistics, Honors College, B.A., 2014; | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Geminates | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fake Geminates | en_US |
| dc.subject | Arabic | en_US |
| dc.subject | Length Contrast | en_US |
| dc.subject | Durational Contrast | en_US |
| dc.subject | Discrimination | en_US |
| dc.title | Perception and Production of Geminate Consonants by English Speakers and Kuwaiti Arabic Speakers | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | en_US |