Document Type : Original Article
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1 PhD Candidate in Linguistics, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
Abstract
The phenomenon of morph movement is extremely rare and, in Kalhori Kurdish, it applies to the third-person singular pronominal clitic, motivated by the need to avoid vowel hiatus. Fattahi and Kord Zafranlou Kambouzia (2013) investigated one example of this method for resolving vowel hiatus in Kalhori Kurdish. Introducing another contextual example different from the one in the aforementioned study, the study presented new findings on morph movement and compared with the results of previous research in this field. Furthermore, analyses related to morph movement were conducted within the framework of Parallel Optimality Theory, with the aim of discovering the relevant constraints and ranking them to determine why, despite more common methods like deletion, insertion, and glide formation, this instance of vowel hiatus in Kalhori Kurdish is resolved solely through morph movement. The research was conducted phonologically based on data collected through 20 hours of interviews with 15 Kalhori Kurdish speakers. The results showed that morph movement, in addition to occurring in the context of verb suffixes, takes place in proximity to emphatic clitics, and this movement happens not only in the case of a three-vowel hiatus but also with a two-vowel hiatus. The optimality analyses also revealed the existence of active constraints in this dialect that do not permit vowel hiatus resolution through more common methods, thus necessitating the use of morph movement.
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