Arabic-L:LING:Word Stress in Modern Standard Arabic

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Date: 13 May 2009
From:Kurt Easterwood <akurt at cjki.org>
Subject:Word Stress in Modern Standard Arabic

Dear list members,

Our director Jack Halpern recently presented the
following paper at the 2nd International Conference
on Arabic Language Resources and Tools last month:

Word Stress and Vowel Neutralization in Modern Standard
Arabic

If you are interested, the paper can be downloaded from:
http://www.cjk.org/cjk/arabic/an_paper.pdf

Abstract:

Word stress in Modern Standard Arabic is of
great importance to language learners, while
precise stress rules can help enhance Arabic
speech technology applications. Though Arabic
word stress and vowel neutralization rules have
been the object of various studies, the literature
is sometimes inaccurate or contradictory.
Most Arabic grammar books give stress
rules that are inadequate or incomplete, while
vowel neutralization is hardly mentioned. The aim
of this paper is to present stress and neutralization
rules that are both linguistically accurate
and pedagogically useful based on how
spoken MSA is actually pronounced.

Kurt
The CJK Dictionary Institute

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