A Master's Thesis at the University of Basra Examines the Syllabic Structure of Consonant Sequences in the Basra Dialect of Iraq

A Master's Thesis at the University of Basra Examines the Syllabic Structure of Consonant Sequences in the Basra Dialect of Iraq

A Master's thesis in the Department of English Language, College of Education for Humanities at the University of Basra, examined the syllabic structure of consonant sequences in the Basra dialect of Iraq according to CVX theory.

The thesis, submitted by student Fatima Safaa Al-Din Saleh, aimed to demonstrate the ability of Saint-Duannemo's syllabic structure theory (CVX) to explain the structure of consonant sequences in the Basra dialect of Iraq at initial, medial, and final positions. It also sought to reveal the nature of their syllabic organization and the phonological and morphological factors influencing their formation, while evaluating the adequacy of the Speaker Sequence Principle (SSP) in explaining these sequences.

The message concluded that the CVX theory succeeded in explaining the distribution and organization of consonant sequences in the Basra dialect of Iraq, indicating that intermediate sequences are the most common and productive, and that the position of articulation and articulatory continuity play the most prominent role in the formation of these sequences, while voicedness plays a secondary role, in addition to the fact that morphological operations contribute significantly to the emergence of surface consonant sequences within the structural framework proposed by the theory.