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This paper intends to illustrate an analysis about spirantization, one of the Common Phonological Processes in some regional varieties of Bushehri, in the framework of Optimality Theory [1] and Feature Geometry Theory [2] . Bushehr Province with an area of 23167 square kilometers is located in southern Iran. Speakers in this province can be divided into two general branches: northern and southern branches. Speakers in the northern branch speak a dialect like Luri. Speakers in the southern branch speak dialects that are like what is common in Fars Province. In Bushehri dialects there are four consonants which engage in spirantization process. These consonants include /b, p, d, G/ which are changed to their fricative counterparts [v, f, ð, x]. Kirchner [3: 26] said that “lenition patterns are expressed in terms of conflicts between the effort minimization constraint, LAZY, and on the other hand a class of lenition-blocking constraints. Spirantization, for example, is analyzed in terms of rankings where LAZY dominates IDENT (x). Under the opposite ranking, spirantization is blocked. Clements [2] recognizes that there are three major feature groups, laryngeal features, manner features and place features, which Clements calls Class Nodes. In spirantization process, in the manner node, the feature [continuant] is added to a stop consonant, producing a fricative at the same place.

An Optimality and Feature Geometry Theoretic account of Spirantisation in Bushehri Dialects