Phonetic Representation of Pitch Accent in Persian Words

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Jafari Tazejani, Somaye | 2015

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 46828 (31)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Languages and Linguistics Center
Advisor(s): Eslami, Moharram; Sameti, Hossein
Abstract:
The stress positions of the words are determined according to the type of their morphological elements. Persian Words often have a fixed position for stress. However, Persian wordforms show different stress positions, based on their morpheme types or in the other words, their bound-non derivational affixes. Inflectional affixes accept stress, whereas clitics do not. In the present research we studied both types of non derivational affixes considering their phonetic features meaning fundamental frequency and duration. The phonetic representation of the pitch accent as the phonemic- intonational element was given as a result of this study, as well. The differences in the phonetic representation of the pitch accent in all types of inflectional elements and the base syllables were represented, afterwards. Finally, as a result of doing a perception test on the results of this thesis, we understood that the what we found by doing this research not only is not an unstable phonetic characteristic, but is linguistically valuable
Keywords:
Persian Texts ; Pitch Accent ; Wordform ; Inflectional Morpheme ; Elitic ; Fundamental Frequency

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