UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Aspects of Pharyngeal Coarticulation Elgendy, A. Publication date 2001 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Elgendy, A. (2001). Aspects of Pharyngeal Coarticulation. LOT. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:28 Sep 2021 Acknowledgments s Thiss work might not have materialized without the support and contributions of many people.. I learned a great deal from the members of my examining committee and those who commentedd on the reading version of this dissertation, John Ohala, Paul Boersma, Manfred Woidich,, Harry Stroomer, Hartmut Traunmüller, Muhammad Bakalla, Rob van Son and Björnn Lindblom. I am grateful to the colleagues of the Institute of Phonetic Sciences of the Universityy of Amsterdam for providing an intellectually stimulating atmosphere and a cross- disciplinaryy setting crucial to this study at its final stage. Thanks are due to Barbertje Streefkerk,, Caroline Schwippert, David Weenink, Dirk Jaasma and Ton Wempe for the technicall and practical help I received from them in several occasions. Veryy special thanks go to Louis Pols for comments on the final draft of the manuscript,, numerous valuable discussions, moral support as well as for his understanding to myy situation upon moving from Stockholm University to join his team in Amsterdam. Here II got the opportunity to have freedom of thoughts and expression. Manyy of the ideas presented in this book were refined by discussions over several years withh many people, Abeer Alwan, Anders Löfqvist, Anna-Lena Happanen, Ashraf Al-Khayri, Evaa Holmberg, Eva Girding, Garda Ericsson, Jared Bernstein, Jeanette Blomquist, Jim Lubker,, Johan Liljencrants, Karl-Erik Spens, Kenneth Stevens, Kiel Norlin, Lennart Nord, Louiss Goldstein, Marian Macchi, Mary Beekman, Mats Blomberg, Nina Griaranum-Thorsen, Nobuyakii Nonaka, Patricia Keating, Peter Branderud, Robert Bannert, Robert Port, Salman Al-Ani,, Sidney Wood, Stuart Davis, the late Vicky Fromkin, and many other colleagues at Utrechtt University, Stockholm University and KTH. II am particularly indebted to Björn Fritzell and Per-Ake Lindstad for providing me withh their medical expertise and their facilities during the years 1985 and 1986 while collectingg the data for the fiberoptic experiment in Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden. Thankss also are due to Katherine Harris, Hajeme Hirose, Peter Ladefoged and John Ohala for theirr invaluable comments and illuminations on parts of my video films during the ICSLP'922 conference in Canada. II am grateful to Mohamed Mrayati for supplying me with some of his computer- generatedd database on Arabic phonotactics. My sincere thanks also go to the tens of informantss provided me with the bulk of the test material used in various experiments, especiallyy those who had to suffer from the fiberoptic tube stuck in their nose for hours, and thosee wonderful bilingual children who increased my inquisitiveness in speech communication. II am grateful to the Stockholm University for granting me me doctoral scholarship to supportt this project during the years 1989-1994. .