Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 PhD Candidate in Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran
2 Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran
3 Assistant Professor in TEFL, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran
4 Assistant Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran
Abstract
At the present study, some Morpho-phonological processes in Azeri Turkish, Zanjani Dialect were studied based on Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolenski, 1993). This was a descriptive-analytical study and was based on interviews with 30 native speakers (between 15 and 75 years old) of Zanjan in three groups of adolescents, middle-aged, and the elderly (each group included 10 interviewees). Their voices were recorded and later were transcribed. All the words were transcribed based on IPA, version 2005. Constraints were identified and ranked. Those constraints which were of two kinds (markedness and faithfulness) competed against one another to select the optimal candidate. Results illustrated that ONSET and HARMONY were high-ranked constraints, whereas IDENT-IO constraint was low-ranked one, the violation of which didn’t render the candidate non-optimal. It can also be concluded that morpho-phonological rules in Turkish Azeri, Zanjani Dialect could be analyzed via the optimality theory.
Keywords
- Azeri Turkish
- Faithfulness Constraints
- Optimality Theory
- Markedness Constraints
- Morpho-phonological Processes
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