%0 Journal Article
%T HISTORICAL VIEW OF CARDINAL VOWELS IN TURKISH
%A Fatih £¿ZEK
%J Zeitschrift f¨¹r die Welt der T¨¹rken
%D 2013
%I AYMAN Verlag- und Media-Service
%X Turkish is a rich language in terms of presence of vowels. There are eight vowels that originated from the relationship between palatalit¨¦, aperture and labialit¨¦ in terms of their characteristics in general Turkish. These are /a/, /e/, / /, /i/, /o, / /, /u/ and /¨¹/. In general, /a/, /i/ and /u/ are considered as cardinal vowels in Turkish. According to this viewpoint, Turkish has a triple vowel system consisting of /a/, /i/ and /u/ in the periods when Turkish could not be pursued in writing. /e/, / /, /o, / / and /¨¹/ vowels have also originated from these three cardinal vowels. Thus, our study is limited to a/, /i/ and /u/ vowels. Periodical restriction of the study is Historical Turkish Dialects K kt¨¹rk, Uighur, Karakhanid, Khorezmian, Kipchak, Chagatai and Old Oghuz Turkic languages) In this study we are aiming to determine the following; 1. Sources of /a/, /i/ and /u/ vowels in the historical Turkish dialects, 2. Presence of /a/, /i/ and /u/ vowels in the first syllables and other than first syllables, 3. Sound events taking place in the /a/, /i/ and /u/ vowels and their reasons, 4. relations of /a/, /i/ and /u/ vowels among themselves and with the consonants, 5. whether or not /a/, /i/ and /u/ vowels and sound events taking place in these vowels are determinative within a historical dialect.
%K T¨¹rkish
%K Historical Phonetics
%K Vowels
%K Sound Events
%U http://www.dieweltdertuerken.org/index.php/ZfWT/article/view/467