This article aims at descriptive analytical study of the main phonological processes of lenition in Hendiyooni dialect on the basis of Generative Theory. To achieve this goal, researchers interviewed illiterate and less illiterate speakers to uneducated informants. Besi
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This article aims at descriptive analytical study of the main phonological processes of lenition in Hendiyooni dialect on the basis of Generative Theory. To achieve this goal, researchers interviewed illiterate and less illiterate speakers to uneducated informants. Besides, one of the researchers is the native speaker of Hendijani Dialect, thus, he got advantages of his sense of language. The analyzed data were written according to APA style. Regarding this method, some of the most important results of this research are: 1. Lenition process usually occurs in the final position of a syllable. 2. /æ/ in Standard Persian in the final position of a syllable converts to /ə/. 3. The consonants /v, t, d/ are deleted at the final position of a word or syllable in Hendiyooni Dialect. 4. The assimilation process in Hendiyooni Dialect is mostly of consonant to consonant, and assimilation in manner of articulation results in complete one.
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