issues of linguistics - Tbilisi State University

maSin rodesac wina poziciaSi T-s sonanti r emezobleba. morfemaTa gasayarze
warmoqmnili arakanonikuri Tg unda gardaqmniliyo kanonikur dg-d
– aseTia fonemaTa ganawilebis kanonzomiereba qarTvelur enebSi.
literatura
axvlediani 1999: g. axvlediani, zogadi fonetikis safuZvlebi (meore gamocema),
Tbilisi.
gudava, gamyreliZe 1981: t. gudava, T. gamyreliZe, TanxmovanTkompleqsebi
megrulSi, `Tbilisis universiteti – akaki SaniZes~, Tbilisi.
maWavariani 1965: g. maWavariani, saerTo-qarTveluri konsonanturi sistema,
Tbilisi.
Natela Kutelia
Phonotactics and Diachronical Transformation of the Elements of the System
(Part II)
Summary
Linguistics as a science, as well as all other sciences, is not a system of dogmas – methods
change and, accordingly, the results change too.
“Phoneme” is a speech sound. It exists in reality and is the object of linguistic studies.
In the language, as a system, the material substance and function of the phoneme cooperate.
On the basis of organic merging of the material substance and function, the cooperation of
various hierarchical levels of the language is possible. Consequently, it is a new
understanding of “phoneme” as an abstract unit and not the opposition of phonetics and
phonology as it is given in N. Trubetskoy’s works.
In the process of phonetic evolution phonotactics has a decisive role. When the rules of
phonotactic regularities of all the Kartvelian languages are stated, the whole range of
spontaneous changes both on synchronic and diachronic levels will be explained and the
interpretation of synchronic and diachronic changes will become much easier and more
exact by taking into account the phonotactics rules.
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