Teen production and perception of dialectal Arabic speech rate
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0004/000477Keywords:
dialectal Arabic, speech rate, production, perception, teensAbstract
This study investigates the effect of native dialect on speech rate as produced and perceived by teenage speakers of three dialects of Arabic: Saudi, Syrian, and Egyptian. Fifteen participants reproduced ten Arabic sentences in their native dialect. The results of a production experiment show that, unlike Egyptian speakers, Saudi and Syrian speakers exhibit a high similarity in their speech rate. In a perception experiment, fifteen Saudi, Syrian, and Egyptian participants rated the tempo of their own dialect as well as the other two dialects on a 7-point scale. The findings reveal that the high similarity in the speech rate produced by Saudi and Syrian speakers does not entail a similarity in their perceived speech rates.
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