| Loanwords with ّFont- Rounded Vowel; Phonological Adaptation in Persian |
| Paper ID : 1066-ICIL |
| Authors: |
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EFTEKHAR SADAT HASHEMI *1, ALIYEH KORD ZAFARANLOO KAMBUZIYA2 1No.68, Baran Complex, hoghughist. , shariati St., Tehran, Iran 2Linguistics Group, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University |
| Abstract: |
| Speakers of each language loan words from the other languages in different reasons. Borrowing the words is a common and unavoidable phenomenon that is closely related with relation of different linguistic communities. This article studies phonological adaptation of Turkish and French loanwords in Persian having front- rounded vowels, on the view of Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince & Smolensky2003). OT holds that linguistic forms are the outcome of interaction among violable but universal constraints. These constraints include two families: faithfulness and markedness, the former serves to ensure that input and output forms are exactly the same, and the latter serves to evaluate the well- formedness of output candidates. The method of research is a combination of descriptive- analytical study. The method of gathering data is documentary.1887 loan words from Persian Dictionary of Moien were gathered. Front- rounded vowels are illicit in Persian since features of frontness and unroundedness is common in Persian sound system. Findings of the study show that Persian sound system considers the roundedness feature prior to the frontness feature. |
| Keywords: |
| phonological Adaptation, Loanword,Persian,Turkish, French, Front-rounded vowel, Optimal Theory. |
| Status : Paper Accepted (Oral Presentation) |