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Maha Hassan Hadi Al-Bayati

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This research aims to examine the impact of syntactic structures on phonological phenomena. It is well established among linguists that different linguistic levels are interrelated and mutually influential, and that language cannot be fully realized without such interaction. The influence of the syntactic level on the phonological level is particularly evident in the structure of the interrogative sentence, where intonation may be directed toward a specific word rather than others due to its syntactic position. Moreover, sentence intonation may vary according to communicative purpose; for instance, exclamatory sentences differ from declarative sentences in their intonational patterns, and declarative sentences differ from interrogative ones, and so on. In addition, stress placement on particular syllables within words may vary depending on the sentence context in which the word occurs, as well as its syntactic, rhetorical, and semantic function. Phonological simplification may also be overridden in order to satisfy syntactic, rhetorical, and semantic requirements, as seen in the phenomenon of successive glottal stops (hiatus of hamzas).

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Hassan Hadi Al-Bayati م. (2026). Syntactic Structures and Their Influence on Phonological Phenomena: A Study of the Arabic Interrogative Sentence. Bilad Alrafidain Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 8(2), 147–152. https://doi.org/10.54720/bajhss/2026.080213
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