بررسي آواشناسي گويش كوردهي‌

The Phonology of Kurdehi Dialect

Introduction One way of saving languages and dialects is to have them recorded scientifically. In this paper the phonological system of Kurdehi dialect is analyzed. First the phonemes. the allophones. the syllabic structure and phonological processes are introduced; then the supra-segmental features of the dialect arc discussed. Method Two methods of library research and field work have been men for this study. In order to analyze the data. the researcher made a transcript of the recorded data; then minimal pairs were extracted from the notecards, tapes and intuition of the researcher. The framework used for sound analysis is data-driven and descriptive. Discussion and Conclusion In every language there are sounds which may not be found in other languages; however. the collection or variety of sounds in different languages are limited. That is. there are a limited number of sounds used by all languages which are called verbal sounds (Yarmoharnmadi. 1364). Tbese sounds consist of consonants and vowels which are explained in detail in tables 1,2 and 3. Allophones are also found in this dialect in the following order: Aspiration. obstruction. labialization, palatalization, vclarization. nasalization, continuancy, constriction, alveolarization. Table 4 shows the allophones of this dialect and their characteristics. Syllables in this dialect are not different from the standard dialect. That is, vowels are the peak of the syllable; thus there are three types of syllable in this dialect (Haqshenas, 1380): a. Short syllable (CY) consisting of a beginning consonant, a vowel and two final consonants. b. Medial syllable (eYe) consisting of one primary consonant, one vowel and one final consonant c. Long syllable (CYCC) consisting of one primary consonant, one vowel and two final consonants Units of sound go through changes due to collocation. These changes may delete a sound, replace it with another sound or change some of its features. The major processes in this dialect are: assimilation, dissimilation, segment insertion, deletion, transfer and permutation. One of the factors in the analysis of phoneme is the layers of usage. The rules of phonetics are common, analogical and idiosyncratic, that is, sound changes happen in every words. If in Kurdehi Dialect under a certain sound condition, the Iql (J) of the standard Persian changes into [k], this is a common idiosyncratic rule. So if in a word like Qurʹan this rule is not followed it is because the word Quran is only used in the cultural layer not in the vulgar or native layers. The most important suprasegmental units discussed in this paper arc stress and imonation.