| A Study of Clipping in Persian in Optimality THeory |
| Paper ID : 1094-ICIL (R1) |
| Authors |
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تهمینه حیدرپور بیدگلی * بزرگراه شهید محلاتی-آپارتمانهای بانک رهنی (مجتمع آسمان)- بلوک ۱۳- ورودی ۳- واحد ۳ |
| Abstract |
| Clipping is a process of word formation or word creation in the languages of the world. In this process, a portion of a word, such as a sound ( sounds) or a syllable (syllables) will be lopped off from the beginning, the middle of the end. One particular form of clipping by removing a part from the end of a word or a phrase is called truncation, which is commonly used in the spoken form of Persian. In Persian, hypocoristic words (and names) are also very common, which are formed by adding a suffix /i/ to the end of the truncated words or proper names, such as /doktor/>/doki/, /solejman/>/soli/, etc. In this article, all the different types of clippings, including truncated words and hypocoristic names, have been studied and analyzed in the framework of Optimality Theory, particularly the standard version known as Correspondence Theory. The results of this study indicate that the morpho-phonological structures of clippings in Persian can be well analyezed and explained, using the particular ranking and the interaction of markedness constraints and faithfulness constraints. |
| Keywords |
| Clipping, prosodic word, Optimality Theory, Faithfulness constraint, Markedness constraint |
| Status: Accepted |