Consonantal rounding in Berber and its phonetic properties

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  • Omar Ouakrim University of Agadir

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.19.5185

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The labialized consonants or what should be called, for a major accuracy of the mode of the lips intervention, the rounding consonants is, together with the pharyngealization and the consonantal tenseness, one of the typical features of the Berber language. Even if the phonologization of this phonetic phenomenon remains established in Berber, however its phonetic properties are still unknown. We do not know whether we are phonetically dealing with a double articulation or with a coarticulated consonant with a rounded vowel in Berber language which is still used as oral. The spectrographic analysis we have realized allows us to affirm that the rounding consonants is a perfect secondary articulation in Berber.

Keywords: berber; consonantal rounding; double articulation.

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Omar Ouakrim, University of Agadir

Department of Hispanic Studies

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2015-12-20

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Ouakrim, O. (2015). Consonantal rounding in Berber and its phonetic properties. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics, 19, 35–44. https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.19.5185
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Vol. 19 (2014): PHONETICS AS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD

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