"The Change Wind Blew": Diachronic and Synchronic Orientations of Sound Change in Basrah Arabic

Dr. Majid Abdulatif Ibrahim

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Dr. Majid Abdulatif Ibrahim

Keywords:

sound change, diachronic change, synchronic change, haplology, basrah arabic

Abstract

The current treatise is an attempt to unveil the phonological nature of sound change and to trace the extent to which the sound change is patterned and functioned via the historical and contextual developments of Basrah Arabic. Language change is generally attributed to three major factors: "syntagmatic change", "paradigmatic or associative change" and "social change". The facts and factors that underline the sound change can possibly be accounted for as to which theories have been propped. The most prominent of which are performance theories and competence theories.

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"The Change Wind Blew": Diachronic and Synchronic Orientations of Sound Change in Basrah Arabic. (2013). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 13(12), 35-40. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/

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