Assistant Professor of English, University of Shahrekord, Iran
Abstract
Third person singular ending -ad is pronounced [e] in standard colloquial Persian but [ed] in Esfahani Persian. This is due to the changing of /a/ to [e] in both accents as well as the deletion of /d/ in the standard colloquial accent rather than Esfahani accent. Furthermore, -ad is pronounced [d] in both accents in the case the last phoneme of the verb to which it is added is /A/. This is due to the deletion of /a/ and not /d/. This research aimed at coming up with inclusive rankings of constraints to explain these three different pronunciations of the third person singular ending within Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993/2004). In this paper, it is argued that /d/ deletion feeds the changing of /a/ to [e] in the standard colloquial accent. It is also argued that the markedness constraint that causes the changing of /a/ to [e] in the standard colloquial accent is different from the one that causes the same process in Esfahani accent.
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Jam, B. (2015). Comparing the Pronunciation of Third Person Singular Ending in Standard Colloquial and Esfahani Persian in the framework of Optimality Theory. Language Related Research, 6(7), 73–85.
MLA
Jam, B. "Comparing the Pronunciation of Third Person Singular Ending in Standard Colloquial and Esfahani Persian in the framework of Optimality Theory", Language Related Research, 6, 7, 2015, 73–85.
HARVARD
Jam, B. (2015). 'Comparing the Pronunciation of Third Person Singular Ending in Standard Colloquial and Esfahani Persian in the framework of Optimality Theory', Language Related Research, 6(7), pp. 73–85.
CHICAGO
Jam, B., "Comparing the Pronunciation of Third Person Singular Ending in Standard Colloquial and Esfahani Persian in the framework of Optimality Theory." Language Related Research, 6 7 (2015): 73–85,
VANCOUVER
Jam B. Comparing the Pronunciation of Third Person Singular Ending in Standard Colloquial and Esfahani Persian in the framework of Optimality Theory. Language Related Research. 2015;6(7):73–85 (In Persian).
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