An Acoustic Analysis of Historical Schwa in Israeli Hebrew

• FUKUMORI Takahiro

  Faculty of Foreign Languages, Daito Bunka University

• IKEDA Jun

  Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 現代ヘブライ語における歴史的シュワーの音響解析
• ゲンダイ ヘブライゴ ニ オケル レキシテキ シュワー ノ オンキョウ カイセキ

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the phonetic realities of the historical schwa (@ below) in Israeli Hebrew. We asked our informant to read aloud lists of meaningful words with the pattern C@CVCV (C) and meaningless words such as/dadada/and/dedede/. We recorded the phonetic data, analyzed them in terms of their duration and formant frequencies, and have found the following:<br>(1) @ was realized as [a], [e], [e] and null.<br>(2) [a], [e] and [e] differ qualitatively in terms of their acoustic properties.<br>(3) The [a] vowel corresponding to @ has been confirmed to be shorter than the one corresponding to the phonemic /a/.<br>(4) The vowels corresponding to @ and those corresponding to the phonemic /e/ differ qualitatively. The former can be designated as [e], while the latter is [ε].

Journal

• Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan

  Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan 48 (2), 130-144, 2005

  The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan

Keywords

• Pharmacology (medical)

Details

• CRID: 1390282680319721344
• NII Article ID: 130000841409
• NII Book ID: AN00034305
• DOI: 10.5356/jorient.48.2_130
• ISSN: 18841406
• ISSN: 00305219
• NDL BIB ID: 7958137
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/7958137
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I7958137
• Text Lang: ja
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