Changes in the Phonemes of Glottal Stops /?/ and Glottal Fricatives /h/ in Kermani Dialect

The study of different words in Kermani dialect reveals that one of the salient features of this dialect is the changes happen in the pronunciation of glottal stops and glottal fricatives in words medial and final position. The purpose of the study is the identification of phonological environment of these changes. It is a field study. Firstly a list of basic words has been prepared and their pronunciation in real context has been recorded. Then they have been transcribed phonologically and compared with their standard forms. The changes are presentedin the form of phonological rules. The changes consist of glottal stops and glottal fricatives deletion in final position and the conversion of these voiceless phonemes to their weak voice counterparts in medial position, another point to be mentioned is the effect of these changes on the preceding vowels which is called compensatory length.