Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect

This article focuses on the study of geographical variations among the phonological systems of Standard Persian (SP) language, Central Sarawani Balochi (CSB), a dialect of Balochi language and the Sistani dialect (SD) of Persian, based on Optimality Theory (OT) and van Oostendorp‟s (2008) approach....

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Main Authors:	Ahangar, Abbas Ali, Oostendorp, Marc van, Soohani, Bahareh
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spelling	ukm-63282016-12-14T06:40:52Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6328/ Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect Ahangar, Abbas Ali Oostendorp, Marc van Soohani, Bahareh This article focuses on the study of geographical variations among the phonological systems of Standard Persian (SP) language, Central Sarawani Balochi (CSB), a dialect of Balochi language and the Sistani dialect (SD) of Persian, based on Optimality Theory (OT) and van Oostendorp‟s (2008) approach. SP and SD are linguistically closely related, but SP and CSB are very farther apart. While these language varieties share some similarities in their phonological system, they also have some peculiarities and are spoken in different geographical locations in Iran. Following OT and van Oostendorp‟s (2008) approach, the study of syllable structure of SP, CSB and SD supports the fact that the linguistic distance between two dialects is the minimal number of minimal reranking needed to get from one grammar to another. The findings of the present research show the fact that reranking DEP-IO and *COMPLEXONS constraints supports how the initial clusters are realized in the syllable structure of CSB and SD, but not in SP. In addition, the analysis of the status of [] in the onset position of the syllable structure of SP and SD based on the constraints: DEP-IO, ONSET and MAX-IO indicates that all these language varieties are among languages which typologically do not permit onset-less syllables. Moreover, the data suggests that the linguistic distance between two languages or dialects equals to the geographical distance between them. Further, as to syllable structure, historical considerations should be taken into account. Accordingly, the syllable structure of SD corresponds to the syllable structure of CSB rather than SP, although linguistically SD is closer to SP not CSB. Penerbit UKM 2013-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6328/1/3309-7244-1-SM.pdf Ahangar, Abbas Ali and Oostendorp, Marc van and Soohani, Bahareh (2013) Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 13 (2). pp. 81-97. ISSN 1675-8021 http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/Gema/gemahome.html
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description	This article focuses on the study of geographical variations among the phonological systems of Standard Persian (SP) language, Central Sarawani Balochi (CSB), a dialect of Balochi language and the Sistani dialect (SD) of Persian, based on Optimality Theory (OT) and van Oostendorp‟s (2008) approach. SP and SD are linguistically closely related, but SP and CSB are very farther apart. While these language varieties share some similarities in their phonological system, they also have some peculiarities and are spoken in different geographical locations in Iran. Following OT and van Oostendorp‟s (2008) approach, the study of syllable structure of SP, CSB and SD supports the fact that the linguistic distance between two dialects is the minimal number of minimal reranking needed to get from one grammar to another. The findings of the present research show the fact that reranking DEP-IO and *COMPLEXONS constraints supports how the initial clusters are realized in the syllable structure of CSB and SD, but not in SP. In addition, the analysis of the status of [] in the onset position of the syllable structure of SP and SD based on the constraints: DEP-IO, ONSET and MAX-IO indicates that all these language varieties are among languages which typologically do not permit onset-less syllables. Moreover, the data suggests that the linguistic distance between two languages or dialects equals to the geographical distance between them. Further, as to syllable structure, historical considerations should be taken into account. Accordingly, the syllable structure of SD corresponds to the syllable structure of CSB rather than SP, although linguistically SD is closer to SP not CSB.
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author	Ahangar, Abbas Ali Oostendorp, Marc van Soohani, Bahareh
spellingShingle	Ahangar, Abbas Ali Oostendorp, Marc van Soohani, Bahareh Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect
author_facet	Ahangar, Abbas Ali Oostendorp, Marc van Soohani, Bahareh
author_sort	Ahangar, Abbas Ali
title	Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect
title_short	Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect
title_full	Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect
title_fullStr	Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect
title_full_unstemmed	Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect
title_sort	relationship between phonological and geographical distance: persian, sarawani balochi and sistani dialect
publisher	Penerbit UKM
publishDate	2013
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6328/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6328/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6328/1/3309-7244-1-SM.pdf
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Relationship between phonological and geographical distance: Persian, Sarawani Balochi and Sistani dialect

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