Biography

2018 - Assistant professor / AL-Hussein Bin Talal University 2018 - PhD in General Linguistics & Phonetics / Nantes University -France 2012 - Master 2 in Linguistics & Phonetics / Nantes University 2011 - Master 2 in Linguistics & Phonetics / Nantes University

Degree Major University Year
PhD
 General Linguistics & Phonetics - Nantes University
France		 2018
Master's Degree
 General Linguistics & Phonetics - Nantes University
France		 2012
Master's Degree
 General Linguistics & Phonetics - Nantes University
France		 2011
Position University / Department Period
Assistant Professor
 Al-Hussein Bin Talal
Arts Language and Linguistics		 2018/09
Present
Lecturer
 Nantes University
Arts and Human Sciences Linguistics		 2013/01
2018/01
Position Institution Period
Head of Department
 Al-Hussein Bin Talal University 2026/10
Present
1
Speaking style influence on vowel length opposition in Jordanian Arabic.
Mohammad Abuoudeh, Jalal Al-Tamimi, and Olivier Crouzet
Conference Paper 2024
JournalISSP 2024 - 13th International Seminar on Speech Production
Published2024/12/05
AuthorsMohammad Abuoudeh, Jalal Al-Tamimi, and Olivier Crouzet
TypeConference Paper
This study examines the impact of changes in two speaking styles –story reading vs. storytelling– on the spectral and temporal properties of long and short vowels in Jordanian Arabic. The transition from one register to another may generate temporal spectral modifications. This is why a particular interest has been paid to the behavior of long and short vowels in the context of these two types of variations. Ten speakers of Jordanian Arabic read and then narrated the same short story. Contrary to what was expected, spectral and temporal vowel properties were not influenced by the change in speaking style. These results indicate that in Jordanian Arabic, the transition from one register to the other had little impact on vowel quality and quantity. However, the conditions under scrutiny in this study may be too close to one another to enable such expected differences to emerge. Additional components of the currently collected corpus may be more appropriate to let differences between controlled and more spontaneous speech styles be revealed.
2
Speaking style impact on vowel length opposition in Jordanian Arabic
Mohammad Abuoudeh, Jalal Al-Tamimi, and Olivier Crouzet
Conference Paper 2024
Journal35èmes Journées d’Études sur la Parole (JEP 2024)
Published2024/01/07
AuthorsMohammad Abuoudeh, Jalal Al-Tamimi, and Olivier Crouzet
TypeConference Paper
This study examines the impact of changes in two speaking styles –story reading vs. storytelling– on the spectral and temporal properties of long and short vowels in Jordanian Arabic. Reading a text is usually associated with formal or clear speech, whereas storytelling is more spontaneous. The transition from one register to another may generate temporal and spectral modifications. This is why a particular interest has been paid to the behavior of long and short vowels in the context of these two speaking conditions. Ten speakers of Jordanian Arabic read then narrated the same short story. Contrary to what was expected, spectral and temporal vowel properties were not influenced by changes in speaking style. These results indicate that in this experiment, the transition from one register to the other had little impact on vowel quality and quantity. However, the conditions under scrutiny in this study may be too close to one another in order to enable such differences to emerge. Additional components of the currently collected corpus may be more appropriate to let differences between controlled and more spontaneous speech styles be revealed.
3
Étude exploratoire du déficit phonologique dans l’aphasie vasculaire : Complexité des structures syllabiques
Typhanie Prince and Mohammad Abuoudeh
Journal Article 2024
JournalJournal of French Language Studies
Published2024/01/01
AuthorsTyphanie Prince and Mohammad Abuoudeh
TypeJournal Article
This article examines the nature of phonological deficits in French persons with aphasia through the prism of the notion of phonological complexity. While there is a plethora of studies devoted to phonetic errors concerning the realization of phonemes, there are fewer studies that take into account the phonological dimension, i.e. the contextual environment. Yet, some authors show that the syllabic structure of the word, or the position of segments within syllables, influences the realization of persons with aphasia. These factors refer to the notion of phonological complexity. This study presents an analysis of phonological errors in French aphasia based on a corpus of empirical data collected from eight participants. The aim is to examine several factors of phonological complexity to see if they are correlated with error production. The hypothesis is that the presence of consonant sequences, the position of these sequences in the items (initial vs. medial), the nature of these sequences (heterosyllabic, tautosyllabic), as well as the length of the items (bi vs. trisyllabic) influence error production. Through this research, we hope to increase knowledge about the nature of phonological deficits.
4
The impact of speaking rate variations on spectral and temporal information for vowel length in Jordanian Arabic
Mohammad Abuoudeh and Olivier Crouzet
Conference Paper 2022
JournalXXXIVe Journées d’Études sur la Parole – JEP 2022
Published2022/12/06
AuthorsMohammad Abuoudeh and Olivier Crouzet
TypeConference Paper
Temporal variations associated with the realisation of vowels can be intrinsic, such as the phonological length opposition, and extrinsic as occurs in speaking rate variations. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of these two types of temporal variations on the spectral and temporal realisations of vowels that contrast in vowel length when they are combined in the same consonantal context. Two speakers of Jordanian Arabic produced CVC words that contain long and short vowels in three different speaking rates (slow, normal and fast). The results indicate that changes in speaking rate lead to temporal overlap between the duration of long and short vowels. In addition, an important spectral overlap is noticed in the F1-F2 plan and it reaches a maximum when long and short vowels are pronounced at fast speaking rates. These results suggest that spectral changes associated with extrinsic temporal variations create difficulties in the statistical discrimination and, potentially, the perceptiual differenciation between long and short vowels. Linear discriminant analysis were designed to explore the different factors that might balance the loss of information caused by these temporal variations.
5
Acoustic study of the production of stressed and unstressed-reduced syllables in word recognition
Kreishan, Lana & Abu Rakiyyeh, Bilal & Abuoudeh, Mohammad
Journal Article 2022
JournalThe Journal of Al-Hussein Bin Talal University for Research
Published2022/02/02
AuthorsKreishan, Lana & Abu Rakiyyeh, Bilal & Abuoudeh, Mohammad
TypeJournal Article
This study compares the production of primary stressed (PS) and unstressed reduced (UR) syllables in English by a group of Jordanian English speakers and native English speakers along the dimensions of vowel quality (F1&F2), vowel duration, fundamental frequency, and intensity. The participants were six advanced undergraduate Jordanian learners of English at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University and two native American-born speakers. Data were collected and analyzed using Praat (2019) speech analysis software. The results show differences between the two groups in the acoustic features of vowel production and reveal that native language (L1) transfer was one of the main reasons for the deviation from native- like production.
6
The impact of extrinsic and intrisic vowel temporal variations on the consonant-vowel relation- ship : A trans-linguistic investigation on Jordanian arabic and French
Mohammad Abuoudeh and Olivier Crouzet
Conference Paper 2016
JournalActes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL: JEP
Published2016/08/07
AuthorsMohammad Abuoudeh and Olivier Crouzet
TypeConference Paper
This aims at examining the different spectral variations that are produced by two types of vowel time variations : phonological vowel length opposition and differing speaking rates. Two experiments on Jordanian Arabic and on French were conducted to investigate this phenomenon. We were interested in stop consonants produced in the initial position in CVC sequences. Vowel duration and the frequency of the first three formants were measured for each vowel length / speech rate. In addition, locus equations were computed to measure the impact of time variations on CV coarticulation.According to our results, it seems that both vowel length opposition and speaking rates had an impact on consonant and voyelle quality as well as on CV coarticulation. For the two time variation types, when the time decreases (more coarticulation overlap) locus equation slopes tend to have higher values.
7
Vowel length impact on locus equation parameters : An investigation on Jordanian Arabic
Mohammad Abuoudeh and Olivier Crouzet
Conference Paper 2014
JournalInterspeech
Published2014/01/09
AuthorsMohammad Abuoudeh and Olivier Crouzet
TypeConference Paper
Investigations of changes in speech rate and speaking style have reported that locus equation parameters are sensible to temporal variation though they usually do not evidence any major impact on place of articulation classification. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of vowel length contrasts on locus equation parameters in Jordanian Arabic (JA) speech production in order to study the influence of intrinsic temporal changes (vowel length contrasts) on locus equation parameters. Statistical analyses of slopes and intercepts show that the locus equation parameters of a consonant produced with long vowels are significantly different from those of the same consonant produced with short vowels. Though this obsevation confirms the impact of time variations on locus equations, further analyses will need to address issues related to the potential impact of duration-related spectral modifications and the role these changes may play on the perceptual categorization of consonantal place of articulation.
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Locus equation and temporal variation of speech: A study of the impact of vocalic duration on locus equation parameters
Mohammad Abuoudeh and Olivier Crouzet
Conference Paper 2014
JournalXXXèmes Journées d’Études sur la Parole
Published2014/01/06
AuthorsMohammad Abuoudeh and Olivier Crouzet
TypeConference Paper
Locus equations are a model of Consonant-Vowel relationships based on an abstraction of the temporal dimension of speech. They focus on the relation between acoustic frequencies issued from two speech “segments”. In this communiation, we argue that this hypothesis is erroneous and provide data from an experiment in which the importance of the time dimension on the computation of locus equations was investigated. We have recorded Consonant-Vowel sequences produced in a fixed setence context by 4 Jordanian Arabic speakers and compared locus equations parameters between long and short vowels for 5 unvoiced stops. According to our analyses, there is a significant impact of vowel length on locus equations, which provides arguments against the non-continuous bases of locus equations parameters in terms of place of articulation, though more thouroughfull analyses are needed in order to get a better understanding of these effects.
Conference / Paper Location Date Participation
Conferences - See Details
2023 Abuoudeh, Mohammad & Crouzet, Olivier. Spectral and temporal overlap between phonemic long and short vowels produced in different speaking rates. 9th International Conference on Experimental Phonetics. Universidade de Vigo, Espagne. 2022 Abuoudeh, Mohammad & Crouzet, Olivier. L’influence des variations de d´ebit de parole sur les informations temporelles et spectrales associ´ees `a la longueur vocalique en arabe jordanien. XXXIVe Journ´ees d’´Etudes sur la Parole – JEP 2022, l’ˆıle de Noirmoutier (France). 2021 Prince, Typhanie & Abuoudeh, Mohammad. D´eficit phon´etico-phonologique dans l’aphasie vasculaire : R´eflexion sur le rˆole des structures syllabiques complexes. S´eminaire Praxiling, Universit´e Paul Val´ery Montpellier 3 - France. 28 Mars 2021 (Online). 2016 Abuoudeh, Mohammad & Crouzet, Olivier. Speaking rate effect on consonantvowel coarticulation and on stop consonant classification. The 15th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (Labphon15). Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Etats-Unis. 2016 Abuoudeh, Mohammad & Crouzet, Olivier. L’impact des variations temporelles intrins`eques et extrins`eques de la voyelle sur la relation consonne-voyelle : ´Etude translinguistique sur l’arabe jordanien et le fran¸cais. JEP-TALN-RECITAL. Inalco, Paris, France. 2015 Abuoudeh, Mohammad & Crouzet, Olivier. A study on locus equations of Jordanian Arabic stop consonants: Do vowel time-based variations impact consonant classification properties ? Colloque Cons´ecutivit´e et Simultan´eit´e en Linguistique, Langues et Parole. Strasbourg, France. 2015 Abuoudeh, Mohammad & Crouzet, Olivier. On the relationship between vowel length and locus equations: Comparing place of articulation discrimination using F2@onset and F2@burst. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe. Cambridge, Angleterre.
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 2000/01/01 Participant
Committee Organization Role Period
2020-2021 ممثل لقسم اللغة الإنجليزية في مجلس الكلية 2022-2023 ممثل لقسم اللغة الإنجليزية في مجلس الكلية 2019-2020 عضو في لجنة الإمتحان الوطني للغة الإنجليزية. 2020-2024 امين سر قسم اللغة الإنجليزية
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Interest Area Description
Phonetics --- Speech disorder-----Jordanian Dialects ------French phonetics ------Acoustics of sounds
Field Description
French Language - Phonetics - Linguistics
Course Code Level Credits
Tourism French for beginners -0214100 Undergraduate 3
French language 0204101 Undergraduate 3