An Optimality Analytical Approach to Selected Qurʼanic Phonotactics

6- Recommendation for further research

 

 

More researches should be devoted to creating a comprehensive constraint hierarchy for the LHQ. This could be accomplished by examining more constraints, for instance, constraints which regard to syllable structure. Moreover, OT is generally under-studied in Arabic countries; hence, various studies should be dedicated to applying this theory to different fields of study.  For example, OT has been proposed in the fields of semantics and pragmatics, but has been rarely examined in Arabic studies.

 

 

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We thank Prof. John J. McCarthy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, for his assistance with methodology and his comments that greatly improved this work.