Wasan Alsiraih

University of Basrah · College of Education for Human Sciences - Department of English

Aim: This paper presents the auditory and acoustic investigations of pharyngeal consonants in Iraqi Arabic (IA). While the contested place and manner of articulation of these sounds have been the subject of investigation in many studies, the focus here is novel: we set out to investigate the extent to which pharyngeals in IA are accompanied by aud...

Most studies investigating the pharyngeal consonant /ʕ/ found it to be voiced whether approximant or fricative. Few instances in some Arabic dialects, Iraqi being among them, were found to be voiceless and with those being related to stops only. Further investigations showed what seems to be an increase of voicelessness. Accordingly, acoustic and a...

This study investigates nasalisation and laryngealisation in the production of pharyngeal consonants in Iraqi Arabic (IA) and as potential voice quality (VQ) settings of IA speakers in general. Pharyngeal consonants have been the subject of investigation in many studies on Arabic, primarily due to the wide range of variation in their realisation ac...

This study presents an acoustic analysis of Iraqi Arabic stop consonants. These sounds have been investigated but with few studies tackling their acoustic properties, whereby interest was mainly focused on controversial sounds (pharyngeal, emphatics and gutturals), which tend to show varying features in the Iraqi dialect, leaving a big gap in the l...

This research investigates the characteristic phonological and morphological features of Basra dialect in comparison to other gilit dialects. The investigation is based on collecting qualitative data plus the available literature. In addition to personal observations, data on the dialect and its varieties were investigated through a questionnaire a...

This research delves into the examination of voice qualities among Iraqi Arabic speakers, encompassing both genders and age range from 20 to 45. The study employs a comprehensive auditory-perceptual analysis utilising the Vocal Profile Analysis (VPA) scheme developed by Laver, Wirz, Beck, and Hiller (1981), later refined by Beck (2018). Data collec...

This research investigates the occurrence of dialect levelling in the geletspeaking area, focusing on a specific variable: the first vowel in the faʕʕa:l / faʕʕa:la pattern nominal forms. The primary objectives include examining the direction of levelling, exploring factors influencing or contributing to the process, identifying the gender associat...