The Importance of Suprasegmental Features in the Structure and Meaning of Pashto Sentence

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  • Mirwais Khaliqyar Department of Pashto Language and Literature, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Nangarhar University, Afghanistan
  • Mohammad Qaseem Kashaf Department of Pashto Language and Literature, Faculty of Languages and Literature, Nangarhar University, Afghanistan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9283-8131
https://doi.org/10.55559/sjahss.v1i09.54

Keywords:

Pashto Language, Sentence Structure, Meaning, Suprasegment

Abstract

Suprasegmental phonemes are the linguistic phenomenon which has phonemic value in a language. These features do not have a specific form as segments but have semantic relativity. As the numbers of suprasegmental features are not specified in Pashto Linguistics, but in most of the sources, stress, accent, intonation, syllable, pitch, and juncture are known as suprasegmental features. Rhythm is a type of intonation which has a specific value in the language. While changing intonation causes semantic changes. The accent is a phenomenon that takes place upon the segments, syllables and words and changes its meanings. In Pashto prose and verse, stress has its exact importance, which causes changes in the meaning of the sentence. Juncture is another suprasegmental phenomenon that causes changes in the context while reading it continuously or breaking it up into parts. The syllable is another suprasegmental feature which may be consisted of a single vowel or a vowel and consonant or consonants. 

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Khaliqyar, M., & Qaseem Kashaf, M. (2022). The Importance of Suprasegmental Features in the Structure and Meaning of Pashto Sentence. Sprin Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(09), 31–40. https://doi.org/10.55559/sjahss.v1i09.54

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Vol. 1 No. 09 (2022): Volume 01 Issue 09, Sep 2022

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