Consonantal Phonological Variation in Kut Iraqi Arabic: A Generative Study
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Phonological Variation, Generative Phonology, Feature-Geometry Model, Iraqi Arabic, Substitution.Abstract
The present study is a descriptive, analytic and experimental one. It deals with one of the topics in the scope of generative phonology which is phonological variation. Phonological variation is one of the versions that causes differences in the pronunciation of the speech in the varieties of Iraqi Arabic as it is the case in other languages. This study attempts to give a full explanation of phonological variation in Kut in Wasit Governorate, in the middle of Iraq. It tackles the process of substitution as a best phonological phenomenon casing such variation and it is restricted to consonants only. It is linguistic and applied study because it states a precise linguistic description of phonological variation in terms of the Kut Iraqi Arabic dialect. This sort of variation will be explored and analyzed within the framework of Feature-Geometry based model, one version of generative phonology. Concerning the statement of the problem, the researcher finds it difficult deal with such a topic since it has not been tackled before. Specifically, no one has conducted a study to investigate phonological variation in Kut Iraqi Arabic dialect. There are many phonological aspects in this variety which merit a generative phonological study. Therefore, it is hoped that the current study will fill these research gaps. There are some hypotheses in order to achieve the aims of this study. The first one is that phonological variations in Kut dialect exist in the consonant . The second one is that the linguistic variables of gender, education and age have a remarkable influence on the phonological variation in such dialect but the domains of education and age have more effects as compared with gender.
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