A comparitive study of phonological processes of Tabriz dialect and Ardabil dialect within Optimality framework

Kolahdouzi Pour, Aysan and Razi Nejad, Seyyed Mohammad and Siyami, Tohid (2018) A comparitive study of phonological processes of Tabriz dialect and Ardabil dialect within Optimality framework. Masters thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

This thesis compared the phonological processes of Tabriz Turkish dialect in comparison with Ardabil Turkish dialect within Optimality Theory. The Theoretical framework used in this study was Optimality Theory which established in 1993 by Prince and Smolensky. Based on this Theory, linguistic forms emerged from interaction and conflict of faithfulness and markedness constraints. The phonological processes of conversion, weakening, assimilation, deletion, sonority sequence principle, and insertion were studied in this thesis. Data analyses in Optimality theory showed that, the difference between Tabriz Turkish dialect and Ardabil Turkish dialect was based on several issues, as ranking of constraints, some phonological processes happened in specific phonological environments, and only in one dialect, like assimilation which happened only in Ardabil Turkish dialect, or phonological process of conversion which happens only in Tabriz Turkish dialect. Or some phonological processes like weakening, happened strongly in Tabriz Turkish dialect. This two dialects, in some cases, followed the same principles in different ways, as in sonority sequence principle, in which weakening happened to satisfy it in Tabriz Turkish dialect, and insertion happened in Ardabil Turkish dialect, or for prevention of /r/ in onset position Tabriz dialect chose deletion and Ardabil dialect chose insertion. These two dialects had common phonological processes two, like weakening for phoneme /ɡ/ and insertion of consonant for haiatus.

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