Raya Kalaldeh- PhD
- University of Jordan
Raya Kalaldeh
- PhD
- University of Jordan
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Raya Kalaldeh is a lecturer of English Phonetics and Phonology at the University of Jordan. She has lived in Ireland for six years and has finished her Ph.D dissertation on the intonation of Irish English from the University of Trinity College Dublin in 2011. She publishes articles on various aspects of Arabic and Irish English phonology.
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This study is part of a larger project on the influence of Arabic emphatics /tˁ, dˁ, δˁ, sˁ/ on adjacent Arabic vowels by considering three factors: vowel quality, vowel duration and directionality of emphasis spread. This paper investigates the influence of the voiced alveolar emphatic /dˁ/ on the six Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) monophthongs /ɐ-ɪ...
This paper investigates the attitudes towards the use of the mother tongue (Arabic) in Hispanic literature classes at the University of Jordan. The researchers have designed a questionnaire of 14 items to measure the attitudes of the students. The study was carried out with a random sample of 86 out of the 160 students registered at the third and f...
In this study the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) vowels produced by ten Jordanian males are acoustically analyzed and described. In line with previous studies on MSA produced by speakers from different parts of the Arab world, this study shows that the inventory of MSA vowels consists of six monophthongs and two diphthongs. Moreover, the long monopht...
This paper measures student attitudes towards the use of the mother tongue (Arabic) in Hispanic literature classes at the University of Jordan, using a 14-item questionnaire. The study is carried out with a random sample of 86 out of the 160 students registered in the third and fourth year of Spanish Language and Literature major. The findings reve...
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Drogheda is the main town in the North-East of Ireland, about 35 miles away from Dublin. It lies within the linguistic boundary zone separating the major Irish English (IrE) varieties: Northern IrE and Southern IrE. This book presents a detailed analysis of the variety’s segmental system and emphasises on its intonational aspects. Findings show tha...
This paper proposes to define tonal alignment features as either intrinsic; the default alignment, or extrinsic; the shifts away from the default alignment due to prosodic contextual factors. Intrinsic alignment is different for pre-nuclear (PN) and nuclear (N) accents. This distinction is illustrated for a variety of Irish English (IrE), Drogheda...
This pilot study investigates the tonal alignment of pre-nuclear (PN) and nuclear (N) accents in three Hiberno-English (HE) regional varieties: Dublin, Drogheda, and Donegal English. The peak alignment is investigated as a function of the number of unstressed syllables before PN and after N. Dublin and Drogheda English appear to a have fixed peak a...
This paper investigates the intonational differences between, statements (ST) and questions in Hiberno-English (HE). The dialect investigated is Drogheda English. Questions are characterized by higher pitch in at least two ways. First, questions will have final raises. Second, they will be generally realized on a higher register. Moreover, high pit...
