Intonation of Questions in Persian

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SADEGHI VAHID

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Journal: LANGUAGE RELATED RESEARCH (COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH) Year:2021 | Volume:11 | Issue:6 (60) Page(s): 575-603

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Intonation of Questions in Persian

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pitch contour

statements and questions

tonal structure

phrase accent

boundary tone

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The present paper aims at comparing the intonation of Persian statements and questions in terms of the pitch scaling of tonal events in Pre-nuclear and nuclear prosodic positions as well as utterance final position. Previous research suggest that the direction of the sentence-final fundamental frequency (F0) movement is the most salient intonational cue to questions and statements in Persian. Prototypical yes/no questions are often characterized by a high F0 rise (H%) whereas statements have a terminal F0 fall (L%). It has also been suggested that the H tone of the nuclear pitch accent as well as the pitch range is higher in questions than statements. The present study explored the question as to what extent the pre-nuclear, nuclear and boundary tones may contribute to tune meaning in Persian, thereby distinguishing between statements and questions. The research methodology was the one used in laboratory phonology. The results showed that the tonal structure of the F0 contour between the nuclear pitch accent and the end of the utterance is different in the two sentence type: statements are characterized by L-L% while questions are characterized by L-H%. The results further suggested that the differences between statement and question intonation are not limited to boundary tones as the pitch scaling of both the L and the H tones of pre-nuclear and nuclear pitch accents are also different in the two sentence types...

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SADEGHI, VAHID. (2021). Intonation of Questions in Persian. LANGUAGE RELATED RESEARCH (COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH), 11(6 (60) ), 575-603. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/963636/en

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SADEGHI VAHID. Intonation of Questions in Persian. LANGUAGE RELATED RESEARCH (COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH)[Internet]. 2021;11(6 (60) ):575-603. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/963636/en

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VAHID SADEGHI, “Intonation of Questions in Persian,” LANGUAGE RELATED RESEARCH (COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH), vol. 11, no. 6 (60) , pp. 575–603, 2021, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/963636/en

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