Volume 16 (2024)
Volume 15 (2023)
Volume 14 (2022)
Volume 13 (2021)
Volume 12 (2021)
Volume 11 (2020)
Volume 10 (2019)
Volume 9 (2017)
Volume 8 (2016)
Volume 7 (2015)
Volume 6 (2014)
Volume 5 (2013)
Volume 4 (2013)
Volume 3 (2012)
Volume 2 (2010)
Volume 1 (2009)
Phonology
Sonority Sequencing Principle and conspiracy in Persian Syllable structure in Optimality Theory

Masoud Moshayedi; Batool Ainezhad

Volume 15, Issue 1 , May 2023, , Pages 223-250

Abstract
  In the framework of Optimality Theory (OT) proposed by Prince and Smolensky (2004) and by citing some evidence of Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) in Persian, this study aims to investigate conspiracy in this language. SSP is a universal tendency in the order of components within a syllable, whereby ...  Read More

A New Approach of Compensatory lengthening Process in Persian language

fereshte mahdavi; Batool Ainezhad; Adel Rafiei

Volume 12, Issue 1 , January 2021, , Pages 111-136

Abstract
  This paper investigates compensatory lengthening processes in Persian language based on Stratal Optimality Theory. Method of this survey is descriptive-analytic. Since Optimality Theory can’t analyze intermediate levels of morpho-phonemics processes, the presented study evaluates morpho-phonemics ...  Read More

Optimal Hypocoristic Names in Kurdish

Batool Alinezhad; Rahman Veisi Hasar

Volume 9, Issue 16 , November 2017, , Pages 87-108

Abstract
  Extended Abstract 1-Introduction The process of hypocoristic truncation refers to a process which includes the reduction of a proper name to a shortened form. In this process, the initial parts are mainly retained, and the final ones are truncated. These truncated names are mainly applied in intimate ...  Read More

A Typological Study of Clitics in Persian

Mohammad Amin Sorahi; Batoul Alinezhad

Volume 5, Issue 8 , April 2013, , Pages 103-130

Abstract
  In linguistics morphology, clitics are considered as a set of special units which cannot be categorized under free or bound morphemes, and therefore, seriously question the traditional view of dividing morphemes into the two groups of free and bound morphemes. Clitics represent some characteristics of ...  Read More

Affixation in Persian: Affix-driven or Base-driven?

Atefesadat Mirsaeedi; Batool Alinezhad

Volume 4, Issue 6 , January 2013

Abstract
  Giegerich (1999) refers to "lexical morphology and phonology" theory as an "affix-driven" model, because in this model the properties of a group of affixes specify the properties of each stratum. He also introduces another model to which he refers as a "base-driven" model in which each stratum is defined ...  Read More

The Correlation between Intonational Contours and Emotion in Persian Speech, Using Rise/Fall Connection Model

Elkhas Vaysi; Batool Alinezhad

Volume 3, Issue 5 , January 2012

Abstract
  The present study provides an analysis of the correlation between acoustic properties, duration and pitch amplitude of speech associated with three basic emotions: anger, sadness and joy against neutrality as a reference, emotionally expressed by six Persian speakers. Rise/Fall Connection Model (Taylor, ...  Read More

An Acoustic Investigation of Phonological Process of Vowel-to-consonant Assimilation in Persian

Batool Alinezhad; Atefe Sadat Mirsaeedi

Volume 2, Issue 3 , October 2010

Abstract
  The present article explores and analyzes the acoustic aspect of vowel-to-consonant assimilation in Colloquial Persian. To do so, the acoustic variables of intensity, duration, F1, F2, and F3 of the two phonemes are investigated on which assimilation is applied. This research involves the analysis of ...  Read More