Gazi Türkiyat

Öz

Stress, which has a special place among suprasegmental phonemes, is when a syllable or word is pronounced with more pressure than other syllables or words with which it is used. Stress, which appears as “word stress”, “phrase stress” and “sentence stress”, plays an important role in the healthy realization of communication and protects the natural line of the language. This special position of stress has enabled many studies and classification attempts to be made on stress. These studies have tried to outline the main lines of stress and to determine its role in communication. The first of these classification attempts is Fuat Koseraif’s who is considered to be one of the pioneers of “oz Turkcecilik”, article titled Stress in Ottoman Turkish. In this article, which was published in the 1st and 2nd issues of the Turkish Association journal in H 1327 (1909-1910), Koseraif focused on the subject of stress and tried to determine the rules of stress in Turkish. Koseraif’s article is a successful work for those years when prosody studies had not yet begun in Turkey. The main purpose of this study is to examine the classifications on stress comparatively and to reveal the place of Fuat Koseraif’s article titled Stress in Ottoman Turkish among the classifications. The fact that this article of Koseraif has not been translated into Latin letters and has not been evaluated until now reveals the importance and original value of this work.