نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه بوعلی سینا
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کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
This study examines three types of primary splits in the New Persian. The first case involves an allophone of /b/, which traditional grammarians called Fā'-e 'Ajamī (the non-Arabic Fā'). This was the voiced labiodental fricative /β/, which later became obsolete by merging into the pre-existing phonemes /b/, /v/, and /f/. This research indicates that this split likely did not occur uniformly in Northeastern and Southern varieties of Early New Persian. The other two cases of primary consonant splits relate to allophones of /d/. In this context, the split of the dental fricative allophone /δ/ / ɾ̪ / is relevant. This allophone was later lost, with most of its instances pronounced as /d/, while some merged into the /z/ phoneme. The third primary split involves the separation of the voiced allophone /ḍ/ from the phoneme /d/ and its subsequent merger into the Persian phoneme /t/. In this study we demonstrate that this latter change occurred through a process we have termed an intermediary split. An intermediary split refers to the change during the early Islamic centuries where the loan phoneme /dˤ/ <ض> from Arabic split into four phonemes /d/, /dz/, /l/, and /t/, thereby disappearing itself.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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