WORD EMPHASIS AND SYNCHARMONISM: DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY, FUNCTIONAL SIMILARITIES, AND DIFFERENCES

Word stress, harmonization, Turkic languages, phonology, morphology, agglutination, phonetic structure, prosody, relationship between stress and harmonization, word stress in Turkic languages, vocalism, vowel harmony.

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This article analyzes the development of stress and harmonization in Turkic languages, focusing on their functional similarities and differences. There are debates among scholars regarding the issue of word stress in Turkic languages, and this article addresses these matters. The existence and characteristics of word stress, as well as its relationship with harmonization, are discussed. A deep analysis is provided on the role of harmonization in phonological and morphological structures and how it operates in agglutinative languages. The article also explains the interaction between word stress and harmonization in Turkic languages and the functions of these phenomena in speech.