This book presents a contrastive linguistics study of Arabic and English for the dual purposes
of improved language teaching and speech processing of Arabic via spectral analysis and neural
networks. Contrastive linguistics is a field of linguistics which aims to compare the
linguistic systems of two or more languages in order to ease the tasks of teaching learning
and translation. The main focus of the present study is to treat the Arabic minimal syllable
automatically to facilitate automatic speech processing in Arabic. It represents important
reading for language learners and for linguists with an interest in Arabic and computational
approaches.
