Emphasis (in phonetics)

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In the linguistics of Semitic languages, the term emphasis is used as a synonym of the pharyngealization (a distinctive phonetic property of consonants, called emphatic consonants).

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Reference

  • Lehn, Walter. 1963. Emphasis in Cairo Arabic. Language 39.1:29-39.
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