A Descriptive Phonological Account of Metathesis in The Holly Quran

Abstract

Metathesis is the phenomenon in which sounds seems to switch positions with one another under certain conditions. In linguistics, this term refers to an alteration or change in the usual linearity or string of elements within a sentence – mostly of sounds, but occasionally of syllables, words, or other units. Thus, the current paper aims to answer questions like what is the purpose of such linguistic phenomenon?, how did phonology treat such phenomenon?. The investigation is achieved through adopting a model to analyze the data. The model is applied in a descriptive qualitative method of analysis. The paper finds that metathesis is represented phonologically in a very simple way but with deep effect that keeps many purposes.