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Final /n/ Deletion in Ghayeni Persian: Opacity in Harmonic Serialism and Parallel Optimality Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Bashir Jam ,
Pariya Razmdideh  and
Zohreh Sadat Naseri
Bashir Jam
Affiliation:
Shahrekord University
Pariya Razmdideh
Affiliation:
Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan
Zohreh Sadat Naseri
Affiliation:
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
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Abstract

This paper explores the application and non-application of final /n/ deletion in Ghayeni Persian. In this dialect, final /n/ deletion is a productive phonological process whose application in different domains and environments is affected by several opaque counterbleeding and counterfeeding interactions as well as bleeding. This research presents new empirical data about these aspects which could be of general theoretical interest. It is also an attempt to make a contribution to current debate in phonological opacity. In so doing, it adopts Harmonic Serialism (HS) to accommodate counterbleeding opacity. It offers an analysis to survive a pitfall challenging HS in handling counterbleeding opacity in derived words. With regard to counterfeeding opacity, it adopts Parallel Optimality Theory (POT) using Local Constraint Conjunction (LCC). It discusses how POT and HS in particular could treat opaque interactions in Ghayeni dialect. In addition, this paper argues that a candidate which undergoes the same process twice in the same step could also be included in HS’s gradualness condition.

Keywords

Phonological OpacityBleedingCounterbleedingCounterfeedingParallel Optimality TheoryHarmonic SerialismGhayeni Persian
Type
Language contact in Iranian Languages
Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 3-4: Commemorating Ehsan Yarshater Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran , August 2020 , pp. 417 - 444
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2020

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