The analysis of pausal processes of Qura’n in optimality phonology

زبانشناسی و گویش های خراسان

Article 5, Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 23, January 2021, Pages 127-151   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.22067/jlkd.2021.48510.0

Authors

Sima Avazpour^* ; Mahmoud BijanKhan

Abstract

In this paper phonological processes in pausal position of Qura’n are investigated in parallel optimality theory. Short vowels are deleted, disregarding their morphological and syntactical roles, such as indefinite morpheme /n/, nominal /u/ and genitive /i/ cases. The low vowel /a/ representing accusative case resists to deletion due to high sonority and is lengthened and extended to the emptied adjacent mora. However, accusative case vowel is deleted in feminine nominatives, which is justified by the constraint that bans every type of suffixes after feminine one and is high ranked. In addition to deletion of indefinite and case morphemes, feminine suffix /t/ is debucalized and altered to [h] in female nominatives. According to this research, ranking of constraints prevents the appearance of light syllables in pausal position and deletion and lengthening processes happen to substitute heavy or superheavy syllables for light ones. ranking of constraints prevents the appearance of light syllables in pausal position and deletion and lengthening processes happen to substitute heavy or superheavy syllables for light ones.

Keywords

Feminine morphology; state morphemes; necrotic morphology; mora; waqf

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