Email this article Some Phonological Aspects of Vocoids and Contoids with Reference to English and Arabic Language
(1) Mustansiriyah University
Abstract
This article investigates the most important dichotomy in phonology—the concept of vocoids and contoids. Pike (1943:66-78) proposed two separate distinctions, one strictly phonetic and the other based on function, or phonological criteria, as a possible solution to this terminology. Pike suggests the words vocoid and contoid for the phonetic distinction. The appropriateness of drawing a distinction based on the acoustics and articulation of sounds has been contested by a variety of linguists. In order to identify and analyze both the articulatory and acoustic aspects of a segment, most of phonologists claim that it is important to separate vocoids and contoids. In terms of acoustics and articulation, all sounds in the world's languages can be roughly divided into vocoids and contoids. This study also compares certain phonological aspects between  English and standard Arabic related to the previous mentioned terms to show the similarities and differences between the two languages.
Â
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Albedirat, I (2001) .Sociolinguistic Study of Phonological Variation in Jordanian Arabic in Al-karak. Unpublished thesis. https://media.proquest.com/media/hms/PFT/2/8vqHJ?_s=UBGco5ONYfX%2FktyOULDMEz4y16s%3D
Abdallah, M., Alzahrani, M., & Aljuaid, N. (2018). Production and perception of English and Arabic vowels by Arabic-English bilinguals. Journal of Phonetics, 66, 146-161.
Ibnulyemen, (2018) Basic Arabic: Diacritical Marks https://blogs.transparent.com/arabic/basic-arabic-diacritical-marks/
Abercrombie, D. (1967). Elements of general phonetics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P.
Benmamoun, E., Montrul, S., & Polinsky, M. (2013). Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics. Theoretical Linguistics, 39(3-4), 129-181.DOI: 10.13189/lls.2014.020702
Crystal, D. (2011). A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics (Vol. 30). John Wiley &Sons.
Fant, G. (1973). Speech sounds and features. (Current studies in linguistics series ; 4). Cambridge: MIT Press.
Ladefoged, P. (2001). A course in phonetics (4th ed.). Boston, Mass.: Heinle & Heinle.
Ladefoged, P., & Disner, Sandra Ferrari. (2012). Vowels and consonants / [electronic resource]. (3rd ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Laver, J. (1994). Principles of phonetics. (Cambridge textbooks in linguistics). Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Modern Standard Arabic. Linguistics and Literature Studies 2(7): 185-189, 2014 http://www.hrpub.org
Newman D. (2002) . Arabic Phonetics : Sound Descriptions. THE PHONETICS OF ARABIC.
Organs of speech in Arabic. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B9%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%82
Oudah , T. (2022).Consonants in English and Arabic. https://cdnx.uobabylon.edu.iq/undergrad_projs/wXD5KwN7U0CXrbwmNvf6Q.pdf
Pike, K. (1943). Phonetics: A critical analysis of phonetic theory and a technic for the practical description of sounds. University of Michigan Press.
Qadori A.(2008) .Basics of Linguistics.3rd d. Damascus. Dar Al-Fiker.
Roach, Peter.(2000). English phonetics and phonology. Cambridge university press .
Reda El-Said Abdel Baset Ahmed.(2021). Al-Motakhses in Phonetics and Linguistics: (Level I )
Roach , P . (2009). English Phonetics and Phonology .A practical course.4TH ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sabir and Alsaeed (2014). A Brief Description of Consonants in Modern Standard Arabic. Linguistics and Literature Studies 2(7): 185-189, 2014 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/lls.2014.020702
Sana . (2022) .Introduction to Vowel Sounds | English Vowels. https://literaryenglish.com/introduction-to-vowel-sounds-english-vowels/
Seifart, F., Chasaide, A. N., & Docherty, G. J. (2018). The sounds of the world's languages. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 9(1), e1462.
Sommerstein, A. (1977). Modern phonology (Theoretical linguistics ; 2). London: Edward Arnold.
Trubetskoy, NikolaÄ Sergeevich. Principles of Phonology. Berkeley: U of California, 1969. Print.
Zhang, Y., Xu, Y., Shu, H., & Zhang, Y. (2020). Acoustic comparison of English and Mandarin vowels and consonants: Evidence from native speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(4), EL339-EL345.
Vocoids and contoids. https://studfile.net/preview/7653496/page:22/
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34007/jehss.v6i1.1837
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2023 Journal of Education, Humaniora and Social Sciences (JEHSS)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Journal of Education, Humaniora and Social Sciences (JEHSS)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License