The Impact of Y Replacement on The Phonological Structure of The Verb Form in Hadhrami Dialect

Abstract

#This study investigates the impact of [y] replacing [d3] in the verb form in many contexts in Hadhrami dialect. Many words have been collected of the verb forms: The present, the past and the imperative. Some have been used as the basic corpse of this study with /y/ replacing /d3/ in different positions of the word: initial, middle and final. The results show that this replacement affects the inner phonological and morphological structure of the verb form. The changes the verb forms undergo result into a sort of difficulty on one hand and to some kind of unacceptability on the other hand compared to the standard Arabic ones.