Harmonic Parallelism versus Harmonic Serialism: The Case of Nasal Place Assimilation in Modern Colloquial Persian
This paper elaborates on the comparison between Harmonic Parallelism (HP) and Harmonic Serialism (HS) as Optimality Theory (OT) models concerning nasal place assimilation in Modern Colloquial Persian. The data of this study were harvested from extant literature on place assimilation, including books, articles, and theses. Also, four native speakers (two males and two females) of Persian from Tehran were consulted to verify data extracted from the literature. The study concludes that place assimilation in this variety of Persian is restrictively regressive due to the impact of the coda condition when dealing with the serial application of place assimilation; hence, regressive place assimilation is executed in two steps where the first one is to delete the place feature of the coda which facilitates the leftward spread of the place feature of the following onset, as the second step; i.e., feeding order. HP encounters difficulty generalizing the place assimilation above since it is inherently derivational. Unlike HP, HS successfully expresses the serial relation beyond nasal place assimilation in Modern Colloquial Persian. Furthermore, HS can explain the directional asymmetry in place assimilation in Modern Colloquial Persian.
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