Abstract
This paper aims to investigate the stress patterns of Ilami Kurdish, a southern variety of Kurdish language, based on the criteria proposed by Kager (1995) and also Hayes (1995) regarding the stress patterns of human languages, including ‘boundedness’, ‘quantity sensitivity’, ‘word headedness’, ‘foot headedness’ and ‘directionality’. After analyzing Ilami Kurdish data and specifying the stress patterns of this dialect of Kurdish, we adopt Optimality Theory framework, which is a modern perspective towards phonology, to show how the optimal candidates are in conformity with the universal phonological constraints in Ilami dialect. All in all, it can be said that Ilami is a right-bounded quantity-sensitive variety as far as monomorphemic words are considered.The next part of the research is devoted to the study of the stress pattern of compound words in Ilami Kurdish. In order to evaluate the stress pattern of these constructions, we use PRAAT software program to analyze the data collected from native speakers of Ilami. Concerning the stress pattern of compounds, it was observed that this is always the rightmost syllable of the final morpheme that bears the strong stress, regardless of the length of word and the number of morphemes. Actually, this tendency always violates the main-left (C) universal constraint according to which a clitic group (c) is left- headed.
Highlights
IntroductionApós analisar dados do dialeto Curdo Ilami e especificar seus padrões de tonicidade, nós usamos a Teoria da Otimidade, que é uma perspectiva moderna em relação à fonologia, para verificar como os candidatos ideais estão em conformidade com as restrições do dialeto
In order to specify Ilami Kurdish stress pattern, we will examine this dialect through relevant data to see how syllable, foot and words become stressed
We examine Ilami Kurdish data based on the criteria proposed by Kager and Hayes including ‘Boundedness’, ‘Quantity Sensitivity’, ‘Word Headedness’, ‘Foot Headedness’, and ‘Directionality’
Summary
Após analisar dados do dialeto Curdo Ilami e especificar seus padrões de tonicidade, nós usamos a Teoria da Otimidade, que é uma perspectiva moderna em relação à fonologia, para verificar como os candidatos ideais estão em conformidade com as restrições do dialeto. Para avaliar o padrão de tonicidade dessas construções, nós usamos o software PRAAT para analisar os dados coletados com falantes nativos de Ilami. Stress is rhythmic in systems where stressed and unstressed syllables alternate, and where clashes (adjacent stresses) are avoided. 191-201, Apr.-June, 2017 reduction.According to the criteria mentioned above, Ilami Kurdish, which will be examined in this paper, is by definition a ‘stress variety’ in which every (content) word has at least one stressed syllable V. 39, n. 2, p. 191-201, Apr.-June, 2017 reduction.According to the criteria mentioned above, Ilami Kurdish, which will be examined in this paper, is by definition a ‘stress variety’ in which every (content) word has at least one stressed syllable
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