Formant-based analysis of vowels in Modern Standard Arabic—Preliminary results

Although of the importance of analyzing vowel phonemes in the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), it has not been paid a considerable attention in the published literature yet. Consequently, a formant-based analysis for the six vowels of MSA in connected speech was carried out in this work. The values of the first three formant frequencies were captured. The present results were compared to some previously published results conducted on MSA and other Arabic dialects. The comparison was performed from geometric perspective using the Euclidean distance. The results of the geometric comparison were found to be consistent with the visual inspection of the vowel triangles.

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