Intermediate Vowels in Eastern Anatolian Accents

The phonological units that differ from one language to another are the vibrations that occur in places of articulation and can be heard by human ear. Every standard language and its accents bear many phonetic differences. While in standard languages sounds get standardized and set up a system according to the rules of the standard languages, in accents which do not totally conform to the standard language, the variety and number of phonetic units increase because of geography, cultural differences, contact and archaic remains. This is also valid in between the standard language of Turkey and its accents. In East Anatolian accents, too, in internal phases different phones appear and this creates a richer vowel system when compared to the standard language because this accent has not only protected the sounds from old Turkish to today but also identified and characterized some Oghuz features that have occurred since old Anatolian Turkish. In the research and selections revised about the region, fourteen vowels which carry the characteristics of intermediate vowels, which are used in different variety and frequency and which are marked with different separation markers have been identified and evaluated with examples in addition to eight vowels of the standard language

Keywords

Phoneme, standard language, accent, intermediate sounds, places of articulation