iran mehrabi sari; Mohammad Dabirmoghaddam
Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, Pages 1-23
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In this study an adaptation of Halliday and Hasan's (1976) description of cohesion in English was applied to the spoken narratives of typical developing children. Regarding the development in grammatical cohesion, Narrations of 3 groups of children 4;00 to 7;00 years of age, 5 in each age group, were ...
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In this study an adaptation of Halliday and Hasan's (1976) description of cohesion in English was applied to the spoken narratives of typical developing children. Regarding the development in grammatical cohesion, Narrations of 3 groups of children 4;00 to 7;00 years of age, 5 in each age group, were analyzed and compared with each other. This research applies an experimental method.To evaluate their abilities in discourse organization through the use of lexical cohesive devices, two tests were performed, story retelling and story production using two different story-books. The results of the research showed a development in lexical cohesion between these age groups over time.
Aliyeh Kord Zafaranlu Kambuziya; Ferdows Aghagolzade; Sakineh Navidi Baghi
Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, Pages 25-49
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This research aims to explore the observance of Syllable Contact Law (SCL) in Persian simple words. To achieve this aim, 4661 contacts were extracted from 9553 simple polysyllabic words. Results show that in 45% of the syllable boundaries the sonority drops from the coda of the first syllable to the ...
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This research aims to explore the observance of Syllable Contact Law (SCL) in Persian simple words. To achieve this aim, 4661 contacts were extracted from 9553 simple polysyllabic words. Results show that in 45% of the syllable boundaries the sonority drops from the coda of the first syllable to the onset of the next one. Also in 68% of the consonant contacts in pure Persian words SCL is observed. Therefore, we conclude that although the SCL is not observed in Persian polysyllabic simple words, it is observed in most consonant contacts of pure Persian data.
shahla Raghibdust; elahetaheri Ghaleno
Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, Pages 51-67
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Studies on child language acquisition show that in the lexical development process, generic concept has a significant function, as it has a determining role in the formation of skills such as extension and categorization of concepts. The present research aims to investigate the production and comprehension ...
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Studies on child language acquisition show that in the lexical development process, generic concept has a significant function, as it has a determining role in the formation of skills such as extension and categorization of concepts. The present research aims to investigate the production and comprehension abilities of generic nouns, as well as the developmental patterns in two age groups (4-5 and 5-6 years)of 16 monolingual Persian-speaking children. To achieve this goal, we used two experiments, a morphological experiment (adopted fromCimpian&Markman, 2008) involving different linguistic contexts (with generic, non-generic and neutral concepts), and a syntactic experiment (adopted from Cimpian, Meltzer &Markman, 2011). Analysis of the data indicated that children as young as 4 were capable of using morphosyntactic and contextual cues to construe the concept of “kind” in the form of generic noun, and distinguish between generic and non-generic sentences. The comparison of the children’s performance in the two age groups demonstrated that they did not have any significant difference in processing generic noun phrases. The findings also confirmed that in addition to employing morphosyntactic cues, the subjects also used linguistic context to differentiate generic from non-generic nouns.
Ali Fayyazi; Rahman Sahragard; Belghis Rovshan; Bahman Zandy
Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, Pages 69-96
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Presenting a brief description of bilingualism and its correlation with cognitive development and 3rd language learning, the present research primarily aims to compare the knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar in a sample of monolingual and bilingual high school students (fourth graders) of Fars ...
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Presenting a brief description of bilingualism and its correlation with cognitive development and 3rd language learning, the present research primarily aims to compare the knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar in a sample of monolingual and bilingual high school students (fourth graders) of Fars and Khuzestan provinces in Iran. To fulfill this objective, 448 monolingual and bilingual students were selected from among 67031 students in the 2012-2013 academic year. They were given a proficiency test, and the results were analyzed through SPSS computer program. The findings revealed that contrary to a considerable number of researches, bilingualism here is not significantly correlated with the students' knowledge of English vocabulary and grammar. In other words, monolingual participants outperformed their bilingual counterparts in the test. Based on the results of the study, it is suggested that further researchshould be conducted in these bilingual communities to explore the hidden factors associated with lower or weaker performance of bilinguals in learning English language.
Mohammad Motallebi; Sara Kordestani
Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, Pages 97-120
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Southern Jabālbārez,located in Anbarābādof Kerman, has a number of dialects which are different from each other andcannot be considered as varieties of a single dialect. Mohammadi dialect belongs toMohammdi tribe living in this area. There are morphological and syntactic differences between Mohammadi ...
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Southern Jabālbārez,located in Anbarābādof Kerman, has a number of dialects which are different from each other andcannot be considered as varieties of a single dialect. Mohammadi dialect belongs toMohammdi tribe living in this area. There are morphological and syntactic differences between Mohammadi and Rūdbāri, the main dialect of southern cities of Kerman.This makes the mutual understanding between their speakers difficult. This article is concerned with the linguistic study of Mohammadidialect and aims at studying its phonetic, syntactic, morphological and lexical features. The authors have tried to provide a short description of this dialect by mentioning its important features; moreover, they have tried to show its differences and similarities with Standard Persian.
Bashir Jam; Marziyeh Teymouri
Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, Pages 121-143
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Careful analysis of the Ferdows Persian accent showed that the back vowel /A/ changes to front vowel [a] in the first syllable of bi-syllabic words and in the second syllable of tri-syllabic words. However, this does not occur in the last syllable. It was also found that different processes occur ...
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Careful analysis of the Ferdows Persian accent showed that the back vowel /A/ changes to front vowel [a] in the first syllable of bi-syllabic words and in the second syllable of tri-syllabic words. However, this does not occur in the last syllable. It was also found that different processes occur before nasals; /A/ changes to [o] before /m/. But before /n/, it changes to [a] in the penult of words having two or more syllables, and to [o] in monosyllabic words as well as the last syllable of words having two or more syllables. Moreover, /n/ is deleted in monosyllabic words and the last syllable of words having two or more syllables. This paper aims at coming up with inclusive rankings of constraints to explain the occurrences and non-occurrences of these vowel changes in various phonological environments in Ferdows Persian accent within Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993&2004).
Amir Mohammadian; Azam Estaji; Shahla Sharifi; Mohammadreza Pahlevannezhad
Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, Pages 145-166
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Pain is a phenomenon experienced more or less by all people during their lives. Since sufferers usually use language as the most important human communication tool to inform others about their pains, sentences describing pain and studying them linguistically may reveal some points. In this paper, after ...
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Pain is a phenomenon experienced more or less by all people during their lives. Since sufferers usually use language as the most important human communication tool to inform others about their pains, sentences describing pain and studying them linguistically may reveal some points. In this paper, after a short introduction to the subject and reviewing the literature, we take one of the systematic methods for analyzing the language of pain presented by M. K. Halliday as the basis of our analysis. In this approach, pain is expressedthrough a process, a noun phrase or an adjective phrase. Then, the data comprised of conversations between a doctor and 80 patients in Mashhad will be analyzed according to Halliday’s method. The analysis shows that some of the introduced processes have not been used by the Persian speaking patients to describe their pains; moreover, an additional form for pain description is observed in the data, namely pain description using an adverb phrase.
