A Phonological Study of /n/ in Standard English and Standard Arabic | ||
| Journal of University of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 24, Issue 3, April 2016, Pages 1279-1287 | ||
| Author | ||
| Abd Ali Nayif Hasan | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study is concerned with studying the consonant /n/ phonologically in both standard English and standard Arabic. Thus, a detailed analysis has focused on its assimilation patterns and its features as a nasal consonant and how it affects the neighboring sounds, in addition to its behavior as a hidden sound when followed by certain consonants. The research under analysis aims at identifying the points of similarity and difference between such patterns and features of /n/ in English and Arabic. Accordingly, it is hypothesized that the similarities are more than the differences between those patterns and characteristics in the two languages. It is concluded that /n/ assimilates to the same sounds in both languages with the exception of certain sounds in one language that have no counterparts in the other one such as English /ŋ/ and /p/ and Arabic /ᶡ, ṭ, ṣ, q/ and /ḍ/. Additionally, its nasalization transfers to its neighboring sounds in both languages and that it is hidden under the influence of approximately the same consonants following it in English and Arabic. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| assimilation; consonants; Hiding; nasalization; variation | ||
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