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Aspects of pharyngeal coarticulation

This investigation deals with pharyngeal articulation in general, with a focus on its dynamic aspects as observed in spoken contemporary Egyptian Arabic. Pharyngeal articulation as a linguistically distinct speech sounds is rarely used among the languages of the world. In Arabic, however, the pharynx is frequently used to produce distinct phonemes both as primary as well as secondary place of articulation, i.e., true pharyngeal and pharyngealized consonants, respectively. When designing the present study we aimed to resolve the confusion found in the literature concerning the phonetic description of pharyngeal and pharyngealized articulation. The following is an overview of the scope of the present study. This book comprises two parts which contain eight chapters. Part 1 includes an introductory chapter and three other chapters describing various experiments we conducted to investigate several aspects of pharyngeal articulation and coarticulation in Arabic. Part II comprises one chapter which presents a model of pharyngeal articulation, two other chapters which report two experiments intended to test the model and a final chapter for general discussion and a main conclusion.