Quantitative Phonetic Variation of Vowels in Quranic Readings: The Case of Hafs 'An 'Asim

Abstract

Since sound is a natural phenomenon that arises from the vibration of objects, and we perceive it through the sense of hearing, and this vibration forms successive waves that are translated in the brain into sounds and tones that modernists have termed the "phoneme", which is the smallest unit of sound by which we can distinguish between meanings, language is a complex system of sounds that coalesce to form words whose inhabitants humble their structures and connotations, and create functional patterns in compositions, and this means that quantitative duality appears in two basic components of language. This means that quantitative duality appears in two basic components of the language, the first component is pronunciation, which is the source of the sound material, and this material is what makes up the words, as the sound - in Arabic - consists of three main sections. in Arabic - consists of three main sections on which the productive nature depends. These sections are: Silences, phonemes, and semi-phonemes, and the basis of the research study on phonemes and the difference between them in terms of quantity and their impact on different readings; therefore, the research will be based on two requirements: The first of them: The temporal quantity of noises among the ancients and moderns. The second: An applied study of the temporal quantity of echoes in the Qur'anic readings.