PHONOLOGICAL RULES IN URDU COMPOUND WORDS
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v23.5190Keywords:
Generative Phonology, Diacritic, Auditory Analysis, ational Reform and Developing Countries (SDG4), Educational Gap (SDG4)Abstract
Phonetics and phonology are branches of linguistics that focus on the study of speech sounds and their patterns in language. Urdu is a major language spoken mainly in South Asia, with over 100 million speakers worldwide. Compound words play an essential role in the Urdu language, where two or more words combine to form a new word with its unique meaning. The study had been exploring the phonological rules that govern the formation of compound words in Urdu. Moreover, it discusses how diacritics affect pronunciation and provides evidence-based examples from different languages. Certain generative rules of auditory phonetics are justified with the help of the data that is collected from the speech of native Urdu speakers. The dominant role of diacritics has also been identified as the major reason for the multiple pronunciations among the speech of native Urdu speakers. This qualitative study has been dealing with the variation that comes within a single word or within the compound word due to any phonological action that takes place during the production of the speech of native Urdu speakers. The study focuses on the speaker's education, age and gender to find out the variation that occurs in any of the speech patterns. The rules of auditory generator phonology are identified by keenly observing the variations occurring in the speech of the speakers.
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