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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 OpenAlexaff
Abdel-Khalig Ali

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. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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