Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:04:43 +0200, Grzegorz Jagodzinski
<grzegorj2000@...> wrote:

>Please analyse (spoken) Arabic facts as well. But "e" is in fact the neutral
>colour of the "a" vowel. At the same time, both "k" and "g" are palatalized
>(or: fronted) in Arabic in some degree (classical Arabic pronunciation has
>the palatoalveolar affricate g^ in the plece of g but the Egyptian dialect
>still preserves velar g even if slightly palatalized). Arabic does know
>uvulars (the voiceless stop q, the voiceless spirant X = h with an arch
>below, and the voiced spirant G = top-dotted g) and those three Arabic
>uvulars do not cause a-colorizing!

They do. In colloquial Egyptian Arabic, /a/ is [A] (instead
of [æ]) in the neighbourhood of emphatic /s./, /d./, /z./,
/t./, and in the neighbourhood of /r/ and /q/ (although /q/
usually becomes /?/ in the colloquial). The "Classical"
(high register) pronunciation, at least in Egypt, also
requires [A] in the neighbourhood of /x/ and /G/.

The pharyngeals /H/ and /¿/ do *not* cause [A]-colouring.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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