قواعد الإمالة العربية من ضوء الدراسة الصواتية

Arabic Umlaut Rules from Phonological Studies Perspective

Abstract

This research aims to explain the transformation of vowels into umlaut in the Qur'anic examples and analyze the distinctive features that affect the umlaut sounds in the examples. The researcher referred Ibn Al-Jazari (d. 833 AH), who collected Qur'anic examples in publishing in the Ten Readings, reviewed the extraction of related examples. The research applied the contents analysis approach to describe the rules of umlaut, based on Halle and Chomsky (1968). The research concluded that the vowel sounds located at the ‘ayn and lām verbs produce inflectional sounds in nouns and verbs, and the [± low] feature plays an important role in replacing inflectional sounds, and the [+ sharp] feature plays its own role to prevent umlaut in nouns in fluid rules. The derivations of the Qur’anic examples demonstrate the role of a feature [± low] to convert the long vowel /aa/ into oblique sounds in the narration of Hamza, Al-Kisa’i, Khalaf, Abu Amr Al-Basri, and Warsh on the authority of Nafi’.