نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
This paper explores the historical changes of vowels and consonants in Lari dialect spoken in Larestan in the south of Fars province. The most important changes of consonants including deletion, assimilation, lenition, etc. are studied and compared with similar processes in old Iranian languages as well as Middle and Modern Persian. Moreover, some phonological processes such as compensatory lengthening and adaptation of loan sounds in this dialect are dealt with. Some types of vowel changes like fronting and shortening are presented too. The findings of this paper shows that the pace of sound changes in this dialect is far more rapid than its sister language, Modern Persian. Indeed, the homogeneity resulting from standardization decreases the speed of changes in language. Lari dialect, lacking any standard or written form, has been profoundly changed in the absence of such constraints.
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