Laymen’s Use of Some Aspects of Connected Speech in the Book "Correcting and Explaining the Standard Language"

Abstract

Many Arabic words during the era of eloquence and what came after them violated the system of structure of Arabic words, and the changes that affected these words occurred according to sub-systems from which usage takes seriousness and does not deviate from it. The structure of these words leaves the original system into sub-systems for various reasons, the most famous of which is the tendency of linguists to simplify, and one of the examples of that simplification is the phonetic reduction in the structure of words. This is what this research seeks to explain. In this endeavor, the research follows a descriptive and analytical approach to know the phonetic laws that these words follow in their development, which are the laws that human languages ​​follow when they change their words. Reducing the effort expended on pronunciation is present in the process of linguistic development. The phonetic change in common words is due in its entirety to the influence of the sounds on each other, and to the conditions of the arrangement of the series of sounds in the structure of the word, which is the syllabic system. In this and that, the methods of changing the structure were limited to the expressions that Ibn Darstawayh attributed to the common people in his book Tashih alfasih washarhih (Correcting and Explaining the Standard Language).