This paper investigates speech timing in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) of Algerian speakers in order to situate their Arabic language between stressed-timed and syllable-timed languages. We extracted first all duration measurements from recordings taken from sound voice bank ALGASD (ALGerian Arabic Speech Database) and after computed durations with using recently interesting rhythmic approaches.

Index Terms. duration, rhythm, Algerian speakers, Arabic language.

@inproceedings{drouahamdani10_exling,
  title     = {Algerian Arabic rhythm classification},
  author    = {Ghania Droua-Hamdani and Sid Ahmed Selouani and Malika Boudraa and Wladyslaw Cichocki},
  year      = {2010},
  booktitle = {3rd ITRW on Experimental Linguistics},
  pages     = {37--40},
}