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English and Arabic Sonorant's : A Contrastive Study | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 554-570 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ban Ali; Hasan Sha | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT The present study gives distinguishing features of Arabic and English sonorant consonants. It shows their articularory and binary characteristics. The study also lists their variations and discusses metathesis, epenthesis, assimilation, elision and other phonological processes. Moreover, the four sonorant consonants namely /m/, /n/, /l/, /r/, exist in all Semitic languages (Abdul Tawwab, 1985: 226). This study falls into five sections. Section one serves as an introduction to the whole work. The introduction gives a brief account of the distinguishing features of the four sounds in Arabic and English. Section two is devoted to presenting a detailed account of the articulatory and binary features of sonorant consonants in English and Arabic. Section three provides variations of the sounds /l/and /r/ . Section four is devoted to clarify some of the phonological processes such as metathesis, gliding, deletion and assimilation. Finally, section five presents the conclusions of the study. | ||
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