Investigating Sonority Sequencing Principle in One Syllable CVCC Persian Words in Gnanadesikan’s Ternary Scales

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Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Shiraz University, Iran

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The study aims to investigate Sonority Sequencing Principle(SSP) in final consonant cluster in one syllable Persian words in the frame work of “three dimensions sonority model” proposed by Gnanadesican (1997). In this study 263 cluster (177 agree,71 disagree and 15 neutral) in 600 one syllable CVCC words have been studied. This study shows that Persian in both words and cluster levels significantly follows SSP. Investigating sonority differences in consonant clusters this study shows that the difference is not significant. It means that Persian does not follow extreme sonority differences between cluster members. The study also shows that words distributions in groups disagree with SSP are more homogenous than those agree. Regarding “voice” as a criterion for sonority, the investigation shows consonant clusters have been significantly sequenced as “voice-voiceless” clusters. Based on the results of the study a set of constraints have been defined to analyze sequencing of some Persian words in the frame work of Optimality Theory.

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Research in Western Iranian Languages and Dialects
Volume 3, Issue 13
August 2016
Pages 83-103

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