The study of Morphophonemic Processes of Takestan Tati Suffixes on the Basis of Optimality Theory

The present study was an attempt to investigate the morphophological suffixes in Takestan Tati dialect in the light of optimality theory. Morphophological processes of phonological changes accuring in a morphological cotext, those changes happening among morphemes, and are phonologically governed. The research was analytical and the data were collected from Tati books and local media. This study probed into the application of the morphophological processes in Takesteni Tati dialect suffixes from optimality point of view. The results illustrated that in Tati both elision and insertion processes happen in morphological borders, highlighting conspiracy in this language. In other words, this study concluded that the global ranking constraints also apply to Tati and the constraints in Tati dialect were in line with global ones.