PERSIAN 
(Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, etc.; Indo-European, Iranian)		 For more information about metathesis in this language, click on the following links:
Summary:
An obstruent or nasal metathesize with a following liquid in word-final position. 
Examples
Conditions
Motivation
Related processes
Comments
References
Examples:
(See Comments for key to special characters used.)
caxr (a)    > carx 'wheel'
vafr(a)   > barf  'snow, ice'
asr(u)   > ars  'tear'
Conditions:
The loss of a word-final vowel creates the context for metathesis. The deleted vowel is included in parentheses in the examples above.
Motivation:
Sonority Contour Constraint (Hock 1985): Metathesis serves to eliminate clusters which do not conform to the language's prefered syllable structure: sonority increases in the onset and decreases in the coda.
Related processes:
No information currently available.
Comments:
Last updated: 3/19/2002
References:
  • Hock, Hans Henrich. 1985. Regular metathesis. Linguistics 23. 529-546.
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