Transition Deficit in Jordanian Arabic Stuttered Speech: An Acoustic Analysis of Word-Medial Geminate Consonants
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47012/jjmll.16.3.6Keywords:
Arabic, Geminates, Phonetic complexity, Stuttering, Transition deficitAbstract
This study investigates the effect of medial geminate consonants on those who stutter. F1, F2, and Voice Onset Time values were investigated in medial geminate consonants for adults who stutter (AWS). To understand how AWS control the temporal compensation between the geminate consonant and the vowel preceding it, the study recruited 20 healthy fluent Jordanian adult male speakers (FP) who acted as a control group and 20 Jordanian AWS. Participants were asked to produce minimal like pairs (/bataa/, /batta/ and /badaa/, /badda/) which differ in the middle consonants. Results show that those who stutter spend more time producing the target sounds because of the phonetic complexity of the sounds and the transition deficit AWS suffer from.