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Vowel Harmony in the Azeri Spoken in Iran: Dialectal Variations and a Possible Sound Change in Progress

The purpose of this paper is to describe the vowel harmony system of the Azeri Spoken in Iran. In order to meet this end, 6 male native speakers of this language were recorded. The speakers spoke four different dialects of this language: Tabriz, Urmia, Ardebil, and Maragheh. Overall, 2262 tokens were elicited, 377 utterances for each of the speakers, 42 of which were excluded due to speech errors. The sound files were annotated manually for the utterance boundaries as well as the trigger and target vowels using PRAAT, and then first and second formant frequencies of the vowels were extracted using a PRAAT script. Next, the acoustic data were analyzed in R. The results yield that there is a backness harmony in all of the four dialects. However, there are significant differences with respect to vowel qualities across the dialects. Moreover, it is revealed that there is a roundedness harmony in all the dialects, yet there are variations depending on the target vowel syllable type and position. More specifically, when the target vowel is in a closed syllable, the vowels [ɯ, u, i, y] alternate depending on the backness and roundness of the trigger vowel. However, the analyses reveal that, in final open syllables, the Ardebil dialect has lost roundness distinction, while in Tabriz and Urmia dialects, only the underlying form of the suffix, i.e. /i/, appears in the surface form. Further analyses show significant differences between final and non-final open syllables in Tabriz dialect, but not for the other three. Based on the results of this study, I argue that prosodic finality plays an important role in the vowel harmony system of three of the four dialects. Finally, I propose a hypothesis to explain a possible process of sound change to account for these dialectal variations.

The Phonology of Iranian -Balochi Dialects: Description and Analysis

2017

The present study deals with the phonological system of three Iranian Balochi dialects namely Mirjaveh Sarhaddi (MBS), Sarawani Balochi (SB) and Lashari Balochi (LB). Those three selected Iranian Balochi dialects are spoken respectively in Mirjaveh, Sarawan, and Lashar in Sistan and Balouchestan province, which is located in the southeast of Iran. As t the title of the present research, both descriptive and theoretical approaches (Optimality Theory) are concerned, since they can complement each other, connecting language (i.e. Balochi) to language (i.e. universal grammar), and give a formal and precise description and analysis of the grammatical properties of Iranian Balochi dialects sounds.

IRANIAN-BALOCHI DIALECTS LOANWORD PHONOLOGY

This paper aims to investigate how the loanwords phonologically are adapted in three Iranian-Baochi dialects (IBDs) namely Mirjaveh Sarhaddi Balochi (MSB), Sarawani Balochi (SB) and Lashari Balochi (LB). The analyses of these phonological adaptations will be given within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT), comparative tableau (Prince 200). The data have been collected during a research fieldwork in Sistan and Baluchistan provinces of Iran. The research findings demonstrate that in segmental adaptation, foreign inputs with fricatives f, v, χ, ɣ are adapted into IBDs as p, w, h or k and k or ɡ respectively. Also vowel adaptation illustrates that diphthongization and vowel laxness are two common processes in vowel adaptation in IBDs. In addition phonotatic adaptation in IBDs shows that final word germination is observed in loanwords as well as original Balochi words; but there is also number of loans degemination in Sarhaddi and Lashari Balochi. Moreover these findings can be represented in OT by ranking the following constraints: FAITH-ROOT, FAITH-AFFIX, FAITH-µ, *Geminate.

Iranian-balochi dialects loanword phonology: an optimality theoretic approach

Dialectologia, 2018

espanolEste articulo tiene como objetivo investigar como se adaptan fonologicamente los prestamos en tres dialectos baluchi iranianos (IBD), a saber, Mirjaveh Sarhaddi Balochi (MSB), Sarawani Balochi (SB) y Lashari Balochi (LB). Los analisis de estas adaptaciones fonologicas se daran en el marco de la Teoria de la Optimidad (TO) (Prince 200). Los datos se han recopilado durante un trabajo de campo de investigacion en las provincias de Sistan y Baluchistan de Iran. Los resultados de la investigacion demuestran que en la adaptacion segmental, las prestamos extranjeras con las fricativas f, v, χ, ɣ se adaptan en IBD como p, w, h o k y k o ɡ, respectivamente. Tambien la adaptacion vocalica ilustra que la diptongacion y la laxitud vocal son dos procesos comunes en la adaptacion de vocales en IBD. Ademas, la adaptacion fonotactica en IBD muestra que se oberva la germinacion al final de la palabra en los prestamos y en las palabras originales de baluchi; pero tambien hay una cantidad de pr...

AN OLD PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF NEW PERSIAN AND BALOCHI

Balochistan

The Balochi language is one of the ancient languages, which belongs to the Iranian branch of Indo-European family. This language has a very deep-rooted history and similarities with the Sanskrit, Avesta, Old Persian and Pahlavi (which are now considered as dead languages). These languages flourished side by side for thousands of years and the concerned language did not let itself dead because of its enrichment and nomadic environment. Balochi is currently spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Arab Gulf States, Turkmenistan, east Africa and some Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Norway. The aim of this paper is to show the differences between the new Persian and the Balochi languages and to clear the misunderstandings of those writers who have considered the Balochi language as a contemporary of the new Persian. In this paper phonetics and the phonological basis of the Balochi language will be discussed to prove that the Balochi language has a long history of approximately 5000-6000 years. As far as, the Persian language concerns, the evolutionary changes and the changes of phonetics, the phonetically variations will be mentioned that which language (Persian or Balochi) is most affected. References from different sources will be given to eliminate * Lecturer,

The Vowel Systems of Five Iranian Balochi Dialects

2012

The vowel systems of five selected Iranian Balochi dialects are investigated in this study, which is the first work to apply empirical acoustic analysis to a large body of recorded data on the vowe ...

AN OLD PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF BALOCHI AND PERSIAN

The Balochi language is one of the ancient languages, which belongs to the Iranian branch of Indo-European family. This language has a very deep-rooted history and similarities with the Sanskrit, Avesta, Old Persian and Pahlavi (which are now considered as dead languages). These languages flourished side by side for thousands of years and the concerned language did not let itself dead because of its enrichment and nomadic environment. Balochi is currently spoken in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, the Arab Gulf States, Turkmenistan, east Africa and some Scandinavian countries such as Sweden and Norway. The aim of this paper is to show the differences between the new Persian and the Balochi languages and to clear the misunderstandings of those writers who have considered the Balochi language as a contemporary of the new Persian. In this paper phonetics and the phonological basis of the Balochi language will be discussed to prove that the Balochi language has a long history of approximately 5000-6000 years. As far as, the Persian language concerns, the evolutionary changes and the changes of phonetics, the phonetically variations will be mentioned that which language (Persian or Balochi) is most affected. References from different sources will be given to eliminate * Lecturer,