William M. Cotter, Skye Anderson, and Elise Bell receive research grant to study the phonetics of Saudi Arabian Arabic

Doctoral students William Cotter, Skye Anderson, and Elise Bell were recently awarded a $1,000 Research and Projects Grant from the Graduate and Professional Student Council to study the phonetics of Hijazi Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken in western Saudi Arabia. The project will investigate a set of consonants in Arabic that show considerable phonetic variation across different Arabic varieties and will provide an acoustic account of how these consonants affect surrounding sounds.