Islamic Art Studies

Islamic Art Studies

An Acoustic Phonetic Study of the Consonant-to-Consonant Assimilation Process in the Ardabil Dialect and an Investigation of Structural Integration in the Miniature Painting of the Tabriz School

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Seyed Mohammad Reza Heidari 1
ُSeyed Mohammad Razinezhad 2
Latif Attari 3
Abdolhossein Heidari 4
1 PhD student, Department of Linguistics, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of English Language, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran.
3 Department of Linguistics, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran and Assistant Professor of Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payam Noor University, Ardabil, Iran.
4 Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Farhangian University, Ardabil, Iran.
10.22034/ias.2023.356798.2100
Abstract
The present research investigates the acoustic phonetics of the phonological process of consonant-to-consonant assimilation in the speech of Turkic speakers of the Ardabil dialect, which is one of the Azerbaijani Turkish dialects. The aim of this research is to examine the substituted phoneme(s) and their distinction from the original phoneme(s) in terms of their nature. For this purpose, acoustic phonetic analysis has been conducted in the domains of duration, sound intensity, first formant (F1), second formant (F2), and third formant (F3). To perform the acoustic phonetic analysis, six speakers were used with the help of Praat software. Acoustic phonetic examinations of each sound in assimilated contexts were carried out in syllable-final position, and the obtained features in the assimilated context were compared with the acoustic phonetic features of the same sounds in the non-assimilated context. The results indicate that the phonological process of consonant-to-consonant assimilation in the Ardabil dialect involves acoustic assimilation in the domains of duration, intensity, and the first, second, and third formants. Another issue examined in this research is the structural integration in the miniature painting of the Tabriz school and its characteristics.
Research Objectives:


Investigating the acoustic phonetics of the consonant-to-consonant assimilation process in the speech of Turkic speakers of the Ardabil dialect.


Investigating the structural integration in the miniature painting of the Tabriz school.


Research Questions:


What are the acoustic phonetics of the consonant-to-consonant assimilation process in the speech of Turkic speakers of the Ardabil dialect?


What is the structural integration in the miniature painting of the Tabriz school?
Keywords
Assimilation
Sound Intensity
Formant
Acoustic Phonetics
Tabriz School
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