Batool Alinezhad

• University of Isfahan

The present study introduces and examines the characteristics of different types of Left Dislocation constructions in the Persian language. Left Dislocation (LD) is a construction in which an element is located at the beginning of the clause instead of being in its original position of sentence and a resumptive element takes its canonical place. Th...

The purpose of this research is to compare the prosodic structure of the different types of Persian topic constructions within the framework of the auto-segmental metrical phonology (Ladd, 2008) in order to answer the challenge of whether the initial position in these constructions is the result of base-generation or the result of the movement of t...

Human voices are unique, and for this reason, speakers can be identified by their voices. This shows that speech sounds contain speaker-specific information that can be reflected in the acoustic properties of speech signals. There are many individuals around the world who speak two or more languages, adding a fascinating dimension of variability to...

This study examines speaker-specific temporal features with a particular focus on the variability of syllable intensity in a Persian-speaking population. Two types of intensity variability measures (mean and peak) between syllables were examined as a function of speaker in two Persian databases with different sources of within-speaker acoustic vari...

In this study, we report on between- and within-speaker variability of the acoustic properties of vowels in a read speech corpus of Persian. To test between- and within-speaker variability, two types of acoustic parameters, one related to the larynx, i.e. fundamental frequency, and the other related to the vocal tract, i.e. formant frequencies, wer...

The present study, using some morphological Persian constructions, explores Morphological Doubling Theory (Inkelas and Zoll 2005, henceforth MDT) and its essential claim as regards resulting reduplication when the morphology calls twice for a constituent of a given semantic description. In contrast to the previous theories and approaches categorizi...

The contrastive function of [spread glottis] in the description of stops and fricatives has been approved in many languages, such as English, but its role in the phonological behavior of Persian stops, not fricatives, has been discussed yet. This paper based on Glottal timing theory shows that regarding this laryngeal feature in the description of...

This paper aims to investigate the ways in which socio-linguistic parameters such as gender contribute into the turn organization of defense sessions. Interruption plays an important role in the organization of turn taking in the interactions of defense sessions. The current paper is then primarily focused on the description and analysis of interru...

This paper aims to analyze the relation between a linguistic behavior, namely interactional metasdicourse, and a non-linguistic variable, namely, gender in thesis defenses of Persian speakers. Based on the model of community of practice, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the metadiscourse markers employed by male and female candidates in t...

The aim of this study is to investigate the vowels in the both Persian and Hindi languages in comparison to the ones in the Middle Persian (MP) language with regard to the words the two languages have in common in order to identify in which direction the phonological processes such as falling and rising of the vowels of the two languages in questio...