Mutual Assimilations of the Coronals /t/ and /d/ in the Holy Quran: A Morphological Syntactic Analysis لمؤلفه د. محمد سعيد شفيق مبارك، حاصل على دكتوراة في اللغويات الانجليزية

Abstract

In the Holy Quran, the processes of assimilation is categorized either into manner, place, or voicing. The current research is associated with voicing assimilation especially coronal phonemes which are produced through raising the blade of the tongue (Chomsky, 1968); they are included in /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, /n/, /l/, /Ɵ/, /ð/, /tˀ/, /dˀ/, and/ðˀ/. Only /t/and /d/ are the phonemes which are assimilated in the current research. The coronal voicing assimilation occurs as a result of some morphological and syntactic factors. In accordance with morphological factors, both nominal and verbal inflectional features are included to achieve syntactic agreement included in Verb + Subject + Object and Verb +Object. Verbal inflectional categories are nominated in tense, voice, mood, and aspect; nominal inflectional categories are included in definiteness, gender, case, and number. Furthermore, most coronal assimilations occur in both clausal structures. To conclude, the inflectional categories of verb and noun ةكملمحا ةيملعلا لةلمجا – بادآلا ةيكل – سيوسلا ةعماج – لا ددعلا سداس نوشرعلاو – ي ريان 3 202 44 facilitates the process of coronal voicing assimilation in the Holy Quran.