Summary of the paper
| Title | Word Stress and Vowel Neutralization in Modern Standard Arabic |
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| Authors | Jack Halpern |
| Abstract | Word stress in Modern Standard Arabic is of great importance to language learners, while precise stress rules can help enhance Arabic speech technology applications. Though Arabic word stress and vowel neutralization rules have been the object of various studies, the literature is sometimes inaccurate or contradictory. Most Arabic grammar books give stress rules that are inadequate or incomplete, while vowel neutralization is hardly mentioned. The aim of this paper is to present stress and neutralization rules that are both linguistically accurate and pedagogically useful based on how spoken MSA is actually pronounced. |
| Topics | Multilingual information retrieval, Spoken translation, Machine translation, multilingual information retrieval, and cross-lingual information retrieval |
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Word Stress and Vowel Neutralization in Modern Standard Arabic |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{HALPERN09.16, author = {Jack Halpern}, title = {Word Stress and Vowel Neutralization in Modern Standard Arabic}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools}, year = {2009}, month = {April}, date = {22-23}, address = {Cairo, Egypt}, editor = {Khalid Choukri and Bente Maegaard}, publisher = {The MEDAR Consortium}, isbn = {2-9517408-5-9}, language = {english} } |