Morad Ali Salandari Rabori
Abstract
The present study, applying Optimality Theory, explores deletion and insertion in Rabor dialect in a descriptive-analytic approach. To see whether these two phonological processes in ...
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The present study, applying Optimality Theory, explores deletion and insertion in Rabor dialect in a descriptive-analytic approach. To see whether these two phonological processes in Rabor dialect are analyzable and justifiable in the Optimality Theory framework or not, final consonant deletion, medial consonant deletion, and glottal consonant deletion along with prothesis and epenthesis are explored. The data are gathered through people’s everyday conversations, books, and other publications on Rabor dialect and the author’s intuition. Data analysis shows, unlike Persian, in some cases in Rabor dialect, vowel deletion is used instead of medial consonant insertion for preventing hiatus, causing a more frequency for deletion in contrast to insertion. Vowel quality changes, in contrast to the Kermani dialect, and some other nearby cities, in the case of glottal consonant deletion in syllable coda, is not fixed in Rabor dialect. Furthermore, in Rabor dialect, epenthesis in verbs does not make use of current consonants used in Persian.
