Acoustical Comparison between/u/and/u:/Arabic Vowels for Non-Native Speakers

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Abstract:
The articulation of Arabic phonemes is essential for the Malay community since Arabic 
language is mandatory to perform worship. Hence, in this paper, an acoustical analysis of 
Arabic phonemes for vowels/u/and/u:/is discussed based on tokens pronounced by Malay 
speakers. The experimental results showed that the Malay speakers are inclined to utter 
these Arabic phonemes similar to the native speakers and it was also found from the 
analysis that the vowel/u/and/u: was articulated as high-back vowels. Conversely, the 
vowel/u/was located lower than/u:/as in the vowel-space. Alternatively results also showed 
that/u/and/u:/is higher than the other vowels specifically/a/and/a:/. In addition, the statistical 
analysis showed that the formant frequencies of both short and long dummah for formant 
frequency F1, F2 and F3 have more variation in terms of/u/as compare to/u:/. In contrast …

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