The Diachronic Change of /xw/ Consonant Cluster in Persian, Sorani Kurdish, Hawrami, and Kalhori Kurdish: An Optimaity Theoretic Analysis

Languages change is an inevitable phenomenon which may come with phonological implications. In Optimality Theory, first put forth by Prince and Smolensky (1991), language is seen as an inventory of universal violable constraints, the permutation of which might vary from one language to another. The...

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Main Authors: Mehdi Fattahi, Bahman Heydari
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Alzahra University 2020-11-01
Series:زبان پژوهی
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Online Access:https://jlr.alzahra.ac.ir/article_4350_f82843f553ccf24433ad29d427077d5d.pdf