Bücher von Atef Jalabneh

This book is written in an empirical approach; this is visible from the style of writing and the exercises given at the end of each chapter. My aim is to provide students and scholars with phonetic theories of articulatory (i.e. all articulators/ or sound-producing system), acoustic (i.e. pitch, frequency, loudness and intensity), and auditory phonetics (the outer ear, middle ear and the inner functions) as in chapter one. I make the task simple by analyzing all airstream mechanisms that are needed to produce sounds of languages and give examples from various languages and then compare and contrast them to Arabic data while discussing consonants and vowels as in chapter two. I have adopted various theoretical views of fortis / lenis, aspirated / non aspirated, voiced / voiceless and nasal plosion / non nasal plosion while discussing Arabic consonants; also adopted notions like high/ low, front/ back, tense/ lax and rounded/ unrounded while discussing the Arabic vowels as in chapter three. I ended the book with chapter four in which I wrote a number of beneficial exercises focused on phonetic description of Arabic data.

The book is written to simplify the study of American English spelling system; it provides a comprehensive analysis spelling differences between British and American. I link American phonetic symbols with IPA. The book also covers the branches of phonetics, namely, articulatory, acoustic and auditory. I explain the organs of speech and the vital roles they play in the articulation of consonants and vowels at the word level. I give a full-fledged articulatory description of the English consonants; they are classified with reference to both place and manner of articulation and voicing. I provide a chart in which there is a connected relation between a phonetic form of a consonant and letter(s). I provide a detailed analysis about the source of the American vowels; they are derived basically from cardinal vowels proposed by Jones (1986). Vowels are classified into simple/ mono-thongs (tense and lax) and complex (diphthong and triphthong). They are differentiated from each other with reference to broad transcription in terms of state and movement of the tongue, shape of the lips and the state of the nose.