Barry Heselwood

List of John Benjamins publications for which Barry Heselwood plays a role.

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Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics

Edited by Zeki Majeed Hassan and Barry Heselwood

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 319] 2011. xii, 365 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Phonetics | Theoretical linguistics
This chapter examines phonation categories and glottal states in the Modern South Arabian language, Mehri, as spoken in southern Oman and eastern Yemen with reference also to its sister language, Śḥerɛ̄t, and in San’ani Arabic from an Emergent Features perspective (Mielke, 2008). Within the paper,… read more
This paper explores conceptual and descriptive parallels between the Ancient Greek ψιλά–δασέα distinction as found in the Peripatetic text De Audibilibus, and the gˇahr–hams distinction in the medieval Arabic writings of Al-Ḫalīl (d. c.786 A.D.) and Sībawayhi (d. c.796 A.D.). In both cases there… read more
Al-Tamimi, Feda and Barry Heselwood 2011 Nasoendoscopic, videofluoroscopic and acoustic study of plain and emphatic coronals in Jordanian ArabicInstrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics, Hassan, Zeki Majeed and Barry Heselwood (eds.), pp. 163–192 | Article
In this chapter we present and discuss analyses of instrumental data from nine speakers of Jordanian Arabic. They show that the main articulatory and acoustic differences between plain and emphatic coronal consonants involve changes in the relative volumes and resonance frequencies of the buccal… read more
Heselwood, Barry and Feda Al-Tamimi 2011 A study of the laryngeal and pharyngeal consonants in Jordanian Arabic using nasoendoscopy, videofluoroscopy and spectrographyInstrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics, Hassan, Zeki Majeed and Barry Heselwood (eds.), pp. 99–128 | Article
Instrumental data from seven speakers of Jordanian Arabic are analysed to gain further understanding of the production of the laryngeal and pharyngeal phonemes and their phonetic and phonological relationships. Results from nasoendoscopy and videofluoroscopy show that the extent of retraction of… read more
Heselwood, Barry and Zeki Majeed Hassan 2011 IntroductionInstrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics, Hassan, Zeki Majeed and Barry Heselwood (eds.), pp. 1–26 | Article
Heselwood, Barry, Sara Howard and Rawya Ranjous 2011 Assimilation of /l/ to /r/ in Syrian Arabic: An electropalatographic and acoustic studyInstrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics, Hassan, Zeki Majeed and Barry Heselwood (eds.), pp. 63–98 | Article
Since the time of Sībawayh over twelve hundred years ago the phenomenon of manner assimilation among sonorant coronal consonants in Arabic has been recognised. In this chapter we present analysis of electropalatographic and acoustic data from three female speakers of Syrian Arabic to investigate… read more