ABSTRACT
Our study will focus on the temporal organization of a list of Moroccan Arabic (MA) words produced by native speakers from Ksar el Kebir, an average-sized town in northwestern Morocco, and explore the phonetic, sociolinguistic and dialectal aspects of this parameter. From a phonetic viewpoint, we will examine the cross-speaker variability relating to the duration of the segments (sound, syllable, word) and its phonological status, as well as the temporal setting for the segments. From a sociolinguistic viewpoint, we will compare the temporal organization of those phonetic segments with the social context of their production, based on the theoretical assumption that the age and the gender of the speakers, their academic level in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), as well as their speech situation influence this temporal organization. From a dialectal viewpoint, we will explore the variety of MA in Ksar el Kebir within a clearly defined space: the city. The temporal organization of the list of words will make it possible to highlight the phonetic clues specific to each type of district, based on the assumption that these clues reflect the past and present relationship between populations and vernaculars of various origins.
