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A Phonological Semantic Study of the Closing Emphatics in Some Selected Verses of The Glorious Qur'an دراسة صوتية دلالية لأصوات الإطباق في آيات مختارة من القرآن الكريم |
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College of Education Humanities |
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Arabic |
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This study deals with distinctive features of some phonemes on the acoustic and articulatory levels. It focuses on the importance of a single phoneme in deciding meaning. Moreover, it sheds light upon the fact that phonological alternation may result in semantic change as any addition in construction leads to an additional meaning. The emphatic sounds both the plosives / ظ D - T / and the fricatives / ð- S / are traced in duality phonemically and allophonically. The unawareness of the reciters of the Qur'an of the distinctive variation between the emphatic sounds and their non-emphatic counterparts /s - d- t- ð/ makes them unable to realize the vital semantic divergence between the different utterances. Therefore, the research is constructed.
The study is of two main sides as the title indicates; phonology and semantics. At the Phonological level, the phonological manifestations of the four empathic phonemes / S – D –T - ð / in Qur'an are displayed based on the emphatic replacement and the disturbance. Based on the characteristics and the distinctive features of the emphatics and their counterparts, the researcher traces how far the existence of emphatics could affect the adjacent sounds either regressively or progressively in relation to the phonetic and allophonic adjacent or distant replacements or disturbances. Furthermore, the number of replacements is counted and analyzed statistically to figure the degrees of the effect of the emphatics comparatively. At the semantic level, the researcher follows two procedures. Firstly, a morphophonemic analysis of the roots of the words with emphatics together with there non-emphatic counterparts is given by following McCarthy's auto-segmental approach (1981). Secondly, the model of Marslen-Wilson et al. (1994) is followed to exploit the phonological-semantic transparency.
Taken together, phonologically speaking, it has been found that all the four emphatic phonemes are having strong effect on the surroundings with different percentages. /T/ and /S/ are the strongest among the emphatics in relation to the distant adjacent criteria. Semantically speaking, the results of the study show that phonological addition leads to either semantic addition or diversity. Thus, the semantic manifestations could be discerned based on the characteristics of the emphatic sounds of the study in order to clarify how misinterpretation, either phonologically or allophonically is correlated to misrecitation. |
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Dr. Faiza Abdullatif Kalakittawi |
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Doctorate Thesis |
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1430 AH
2009 AD |
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 |
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Researchers
| ريم عمر مغربي | Maghrabi, Reem Omar | Researcher | Doctorate | |
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