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Record W4407630121 · doi:10.1075/sal.14.03ali

The realization patterns of the glottal stop in Sudanese Arabic

2025· book-chapter· en· W4407630121 on OpenAlex
Abdel-Khalig Ali

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Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Arabic linguistics · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRealization (probability)ArabicSpeech recognitionComputer scienceHistoryLinguisticsMathematicsPhilosophyStatistics

Abstract

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Abstract This paper investigates the realization patterns of the glottal stop attested in Urban Central Sudanese Arabic (UCSA). To this end, the paper examines the realizations of forms whose roots consist of glottal stop radicals. Root-initial and root-medial glottal stops are shown to exhibit realization patterns that are explained in terms of a phonotactic constraint against syllabifying the glottal stop in a coda position. This constraint is violated to satisfy a verbal templatic requirement. Root-initial and root-medial glottal stops are also shown to exhibit three more unpredictable patterns in which the glottal stop is not realized even in contexts where it would be syllabified in an onset position. All root-final glottal stops are shown to have been reanalyzed as a palatal glide j in UCSA. The unpredictable patterns of root-initial and medial glottal stops are argued to indicate that this segment may be undergoing a similar reanalysis process.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.540
Threshold uncertainty score0.746

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.404
Teacher spread0.332 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it