Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Bonabi variety is one of the important varieties of Azerbaijani in Iran. Although most of female names in this variety are loan words, but all of these words in speech and casual language are a function of Bonabi variety. The aim of present research is to study the effect of social variables (education and age) on the phonetic representation of /e/ in the final syllable of female names in the proposed framework of Labov’s (1966, 2006) in Bonabi variety of Azerbaijani. In this research the method of data collection is interview. 60 female names from 60 native speakers of Bonabi variety were collected. From all of these 60 participants were asked that they introduce themselves. The participants were divided into three groups based on the variables of education and two groups based on age. Due to illiteracy of some participants only the casual and spoken style was studied. The data research were analyzed by means of column charts. The data analysis shows that social variables is effective on the Phonetic representation of /e/ in the final syllable of female names in the Bonabi variety of Azerbaijani. In fact, the phonetic representation of this phoneme is a function of social variables.
Keywords
- "Bonabi variety"
- “Azerbaijani”
- “Social Variables”
- “education and age”
- “female names”
- “final syllable”
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