| Autor: |
Shafi, Sehrish, Syed, Nasir Abbas |
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Hayatian Journal of Linguistics & Literature; 2021, Vol. 5, p194-210, 17p |
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This paper highlights changes which occur in Saraiki loanwords of Arabic origin to satisfy the prosodic constraints of the L1 grammar. Saraiki is a quantity sensitive language, which always stresses the heaviest syllable in a word. If a word has two syllables of equal weight, stress falls on the left or penultimate syllable. Saraiki does not allow an unstressed heavy syllable on the left-edge of a word. These constraints trigger paradoxical changes, which result into insertion and/or deletion in the Arabic loanwords. The words of LH (Light-Heavy) syllables in Arabic change into HH in Saraiki. This is done by insertion of a consonant in the penultimate light syllable which results in gemination (Arabic /abu:/ →Saraiki /əb.bu:/). Contrary to this, sometimes Saraiki speakers delete a consonant or a mora in the penultimate syllable, if the ultimate syllable is super-heavy, to satisfy the constraint which demands stress on heavy syllable. This determines ranking between 'Weight-to-Stress principle' and 'stress penultimate' constraints. The result is vowel shortening in the penultimate syllables of bi-syllabic words. Similar deletion also targets consonants in tri-syllabic words which results into degemination. Following Optimality Theory (OT) paradigms, this paper provides evidence to support the 'phonological approach' in loanword phonology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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