Assimilation’ in Light of Modern Linguistics

Abstract

Arabic language, and a manifestation of the phonetic development in it, which occurs between the consonant sounds when they are adjacent. To bring the sounds together. The aim of the research is to study the phenomenon of following among Arabs in the light of modern linguistics, and in the light of contemporary linguistics. The research has reached several results, including: kinetic subordination is a phenomenon of the Arabic language that aims to economize on muscular effort, lightness and speed in pronunciation and achieve harmony between adjacent sounds, known to the Arabs, and its remnants are still present, and also that the purpose of kinetic following is: , economy in muscular effort; Therefore, the Bedouin tribes, such as Tamim, Asad and Qais, tended to him and became famous for him. Because it fits their geographical environment, and their linguistic nature