The metrical structure of the words of some short Qur’anic chapters

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The present study attempts to analyse the words of some short Qur’anic Chapters metrically according to Hayes’s (1995) parametric metrical theory.

This theory assumes that word stress assignment in any language can be accomplished by setting the relevant parameters of that language.

These parameters include quantity sensitivity, foot size, iterativity, direction of parsing, and foot dominance.

The results of the study show that the frequent type of the Qur’anic words of the investigated eight short Qur’anic chapters are the disyllabic and the trisyllabic words.

In addition, the analysis of Qur’anic word stress according to the parametric metrical theory is accomplished successfully by setting the relevant rules and parameters of the Qur’anic language.