Newcastle University

Background

I received my BA in Jordan at Yarmouk University, Irbid in Modern Languages: French and English Language and Literature in 1998. I moved to France to Lyon II University where I obtained 2 BAs: BA in Teaching French as a Foreign Language (FLE) in 1999, and BA in Language Sciences in 2000. I then obtained my MA degrees in Language Sciences, option Phonetics and Phonology in 2001 and 2002. I started working on my PhD in 2002 at the University Lyon 2 on the role of Dynamic cues in Production and Perception of vowels in Arabic and French, and earned my Diploma in 2007. I started working at the University of Newcastle in December 2007 as a Research Associate with Dr. Ghada Khattab on the Acquisition of Phonology by Lebanese Arabic speaking children.

Roles and Responsibilities

2010: Co-organiser of the CRiLLS / IoN Research Away Day on the 25th June 2010.
2009: Member of the local organising committee for the 7th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC7), Newcastle University, September 1st-3rd, 2009.
2009: Co-organiser of the Internation Workshop on Pharyngeals and Pharyngealisation, Newcastle University, March 26-27, 2009.
2007: Co-organiser of the International workshop "Coarticulation: Cues, Direction & Reprsentation", Montpellier December 7, 2007.
2006-2008: Pedagogic Director of the Language Sciences module in Language Therapy at the "Institut des Sciences et Techniques de Réadaptation", Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
2002-2008: Supervisor of 1 dissertation and co-supervisor of 5 dissertations in Voice Therapy at the "Institut des Sciences et Techniques de Réadaptation"Lyon 1 University.

Qualifications

2002-2007: PhD in Language Sciences option Phonetics and Phonology, Lyon 2 University, Lyon, France.
2001-2002: MA2 (DEA) in Language Sciences option Phonetics and Phonology, Lyon 2 University, Lyon, France.
2000-2001: MA1 (Maîtrise) in Language Sciences option Phonetics and Phonology, Lyon 2 University, Lyon, France.
1999-2000: BA in Languages Sciences, Lyon 2 University, Lyon, France.
1998-1999: BA in Teaching French as a Foreign Language (FLE), Lyon 2 University, Lyon, France.
1994-1998: BA in French Language and Literature, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.

Previous Positions

2001-2007: lecturer of Acoustic Phonetics and its` application in voice therapy, at the "Institut des Sciences et Techniques de Réadaptation", Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
2001-2007: Research Assistant at the "Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage", CNRS and Lyon 2 University, (several contracts).

Memberships

2008-...: Member of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, BAAP.

2002-2010: Member of the International Speech Communication Association, ISCA.

2002-2010: Member of the Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée, AFCP.

2011-2014: Member of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL).

Languages

Arabic, French and English

Research Interests

Phonetics and Phonology
Acoustic and perceptual phonetics
C-V Coarticulation in production and perception
Static and Dynamic cues in vowel production and perception
Effects of Inventory Size on Vowel Dispersion on both Production and Perception
Locus Equation and formant slope application in production
Arabic Dialectology

Other Expertise

Praat Scripting
Objective evaluation of voice quality
Acoustic profile of consonants and vowels
Formant-based speech synthesis

Current Work

2010-2012: Research Associate on the project "Psychological Significance of Production Templates in Phonological and Lexical Advance: A Cross-Linguistic Study".
2007-2010: Research Associate on the project "Phonological acquisition in multilingual settings: the case of Lebanese Arabic", supervised by Dr. Ghada Khattab. My work consists of the identification of the acoustical basis of gemination in Lebanese Arabic on the adults data (12 males and 12 females), by investigating the effect of gemination on both consonants and vowels. After that, a longitudinal study will be conducted to evaluate the acquisition of geminates in Lebanese Arabic children aged 9 to 24 months in multilingual setting.

2002-2007: For my doctoral research, I carried out an investigation on the role of dynamic cues identified in production and their impact on the perception of vowels in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic in comparison with French. By dynamic cues I mean the spectral information available in the transition between vowels and consonants, while the static ones include the mid-point values of vowel formants. A perceptual design was developed in order to test the ability of listeners of each language to identify the vocalic prototypes of their systems. Main results show that the dynamic cues do affect the identification of prototypes in each language.

Research Roles

• RAs Representative on the CRiLLS Executive Board. Coordinating staff and PG training and development.

• Peer Reviewer for: Journal of Phonetics; LabPhon Conference; ESRC projects; Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics; York Working Papers in Linguistics.

Postgraduate Supervision

I'm currently second supervisor of a PhD student (with Ghada Khattab):

Wasan AlSiraih: Voice Quality in Iraqi Arabic.

Funding

British Academy Overseas Conference Grant (OCG 11): 17th ICPhS (International Congress of Phonetic Sciences)

Undergraduate Teaching

SPE1024/SPE8103: Phonetics I: Speaker, Speech and Language
SPE2024/SPE8210: Phonetics II: Gesture, Segment, Prosody

• Al-Tamimi J, Khattab G. Multiple Cues for the Singleton-Geminate Contrast in Lebanese Arabic: Acoustic Investigation of Stops and Fricatives. In: 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 2011, Hong Kong.
• Al-Tamimi J. Aspects phonétiques et phonologiques de la gémination en Arabe Libanais. In: Invited speaker, Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage Seminars. 2010, Lyon, France.
• Al-Tamimi J, Khattab G. Multiple cues for the singleton-geminate contrast in Lebanese Arabic: the role of non-temporal characteristics. In: The BAAP Colloquium. 2010, London, UK.
• Al-Tamimi J. Static and Dynamic Cues in Vowel Production and Perception: Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Moroccan Arabic, Jordanian Arabic and French. In: The BAAP Colloquium. 2010, London, UK.
• Al-Tamimi J. Effect of pharyngealisation on vowels revisited: Static and Dynamic analyses of vowels in Moroccan and Jordanian Arabic. In: Workshop on Pharyngeals and Pharyngealisation. 2009, Newcastle University, UK.
• Al-Tamimi J. Hyunsoon KIM: "La palatalisation en coréen comme exemple de coarticulation : données ciné-IRM stroboscopiques et acoustiques des mouvements graduels de la langue", translated from English [Korean Palatalization as Coarticulation: stroboscopic cine-MRI and acoustic data on gradual tongue movements]. In: Embarki, M., Dodane, C.H, ed. La Coarticulation: Des Indices à la Représentation. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009, pp.253-270.
• Khattab G, Al-Tamimi J. Phonetic cues to gemination in Lebanese Arabic. In: 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting. 2009, Manchester University.
• Khattab G, Al-Tamimi J. Durational Cues for Gemination in Lebanese Arabic. Language and Linguistics 2008, 22, 39-55.
• Al-Tamimi J. L’espace vocalique perceptif dépend de la densité des systèmes vocaliques : Étude translinguistique en arabe marocain, en arabe jordanien et en français. In: XXVIIème Journées d’Études sur la Parole. 2008, Avignon, France: -.
• Khattab G, Al-Tamimi J. Phonetic cues to gemination in Lebanese Arabic. In: Laboratory Phonology 11 (LabPhon 11): Phonetic detail in the lexicon. 2008, University of Wellington, Victoria, New Zealand: -.
• Khattab G, Al-Tamimi J. Phonetic patterns of gemination in Lebanese Arabic. In: The BAAP Colloquium. 2008, Sheffield University, United Kingdom: British Association of Academic Phoneticians.
• Al-Tamimi J. [PhD Thesis] Indices dynamiques et perception des voyelles: étude translinguistique en arabe dialectal et en français. Lyon, France: Université Lyon 2, 2007. Sciences du Langage.
• Dodane C, Al-Tamimi J. An acoustic comparison of vowel systems in Adult-Directed-Speech and Child-Directed-Speech: Evidence from French, English & Japanese. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 2007, Saarbrucken, Germany.
• Al-Tamimi J. Production et perception des voyelles en arabe marocain et arabe jordanien: pertinence des indices statiques et dynamiques. In: Proceedings of 1ères Journées des Sciences de la Parole. 2007, Charleroi, Belgium.
• Al-Tamimi J. Röle des indices statiques et dynamiques dans la classification des voyelles en arabe marocain et arabe jordanien : étude acoustico-perceptive. In: Proceedings of the International Conference "Typologie des Parlers Arabes Modernes". 2007, Montpellier, France.
• Al-Tamimi J. Static and Dynamic cues in vowel production: a cross dialectal study in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 2007, Saarbrucken, Germany.
• Al-Tamimi J. Analyse dynamique de la réduction vocalique en contexte CV à partir des pentes formantiques en arabe dialectal et en français. In: Actes des XXVIème Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole.2006,Dinard, France
• Al-Tamimi J, Ferragne E. Does vowel space size depend on language vowel inventories? Evidence from two Arabic dialects and French. In: Proceedings of of InterSpeech-EuroSpeech.2005,Lisbon, Portugal
• Al-Tamimi J. L'équation du locus comme mesure de la coarticulation VC et CV : étude préliminaire en Arabe Dialectal Jordanien. In: Proceedings of the XXVème Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole. 2004, Fez, Maroc.
• Al-Tamimi J, Carré R, Marsico E. The status of vowels in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic: insights from production and perception. In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. 2004, San Diego, California, USA: Acoustical Society of America.
• Barkat-Defradas M, Al-Tamimi J, Benkirane T. Phonetic variation in production and perception of speech: a comparative study of two Arabic dialects. In: 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. 2003, Barcelona, Spain.
• Al-Tamimi J, Barkat-Defradas M. Inter-dialectal and inter-individual variability in production and perception: a preliminary study in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic. In: Proc. of the 5ème Rencontre de l'Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA). 2002, Cadiz, Espagne: Universidad de Cádiz, Servicio de Publicaciones.
• Al-Tamimi J, Girard M, Marsico E. Variabilité inter-langue et inter-individuelle en production et en perception : étude préliminaire en arabe dialectal et en français. In: Proc. of the XXIVèmes Journées d'Etude sur la Parole. 2002, Nancy: L’Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée.
• Al-Tamimi J. Variabilité phonétique en production et en perception de la parole: Le cas de l'arabe jordano-palestinien. Université Lyon: Mémoire du DEA en Sciences du Langage, 2002.
• Al-Tamimi J. Description linguistique de 6 parlers jordaniens : étude des interférences en production entre l'arabe dialectal jordanien et l'arabe classique ; une approche phonético-phonologique et acoustique. Mémoire de Maîtrise en Sciences du Langage; Université Lyon 2, 2001.
• Khattab G, Al-Tamimi J. Early phonological patterns in Lebanese Arabic. In: Vihman, M., Keren-Portnoy, T, ed. Child Phonology: Whole word approaches, cross-linguistic evidence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013. In Press.
• Khattab G, Al-Tamimi J. Geminate timing in Lebanese Arabic: the relationship between phonetics and phonology. Laboratory Phonology 2013. Submitted.