A comprehensive study of the linguistic and prosodic functions of short Arabic vowels (ʔl-Herekat)‎

الملخص EN

The study of the short Arabic short Vowels in the old Arabic linguistic Treatises was done by ancient Grammarians of Arabic by treating them as a supplementary topic when they had studied consonants.

Moreover, their definition of short vowels was based on quantitative bases.

Therefore, the of short vowels had been distributed in various sections of studying the consonants, thus reducing their essential importance in the study of Arabic language and poetry.

The ancient Arabic grammarians had to present a study based on the central value of short vowels at each level of the study of verbal performance in language and poetry, which had not been realized.

The is noticed that the fundamental impact, or the role, of the short vowels can be traced in the following linguistic levels c.

Syntax, d.

Semantics.

Moreover, In addition, these levels may overlap, so there is the effect of a certain changing of the short vowels in more than one level, such as morphemic syntactic, syntactic -semantic.

Moreover, the fundamental roles of short vowels in shaping basic concepts in the study of Arabic poetry and rhyme shows has remained far from the unified research approach of studying them which might show their extreme importance and their essential roles in the structure of Arabic poetry.

The researcher has emphasized the importance of starting from the study' of short vowels and their fundamental roles at all levels of linguistic and poetic analyses.

The researcher then has come up with a definition based on the speech characteristics of the short vowels, indicating that the shortcomings of the traditional definition had resulted from the feet that it had been based on quantitative bases.