Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami- Ph.D. in Linguistics
- Head of Department at Allameh Tabataba'i University
Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami
- Ph.D. in Linguistics
- Head of Department at Allameh Tabataba'i University
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Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami currently works at the Department of Linguistics, Allameh Tabatabai University. Golnaz does research in phonetics and phonology.
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September 1994 - November 2002
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Persian has two sets of simple and special enclitics that attach to a wide variety of syntactic hosts. Some of them appear only in the informal variety of spoken Persian, while others appear, both in informal, as well as formal varieties with different pronunciations. The first part of this chapter deals with the different forms that the enclitics...
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Previous studies on Persian rhythm and prosodic typology have focused on micro-rhythm. However, micro-rhythm alone cannot explain the perceptible prosodic differences between language varieties such as Tehrani and Kermani varieties of Persian, which are classified under a single typological category, namely pitch-accent languages. In the c...
Keywords: Ta'arof has a special place in the Iranian culture and its linguistic repesentations are various and considerable. Since Ta'arof expressions are used in interactive contexts by native speakers of Persian, it is expected that the intonation patterns of these expressions be affected by discourse factors and vary as a function of context. Th...
This article accounts for the acoustic grounds of the diachronic lenition of Old Persian /k/ to [ʧ] and [z] in certain verbal (present tense) and nonverbal forms and to [x] in the past tense of the same verbs, in /V¬¬__a, e/ and /V__t/ contexts respectively. In order to replicate the phonetic context of these diachronic changes within the framework...
The present article examines syllable-final consonant clusters in original and borrowed words in standard Pashto. In doing this, the phonotactic constraints on such clusters are analyzed within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). The focus of previous research on the phonological system of Pashto has been on initial consonant clusters, however...
In the current research, we have reviewed the labeling system known as Tones and Break Indices (ToBI) (Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg, 1990) and its alternative labeling systems including Rhythm and Pitch (RaP) (Dilley, 2005; Dilley & Brown, 2005; Dilley et al., 2006). The problems of the ToBI system were summarized and presented. Furthermore, a review...
The selection of an appropriate labeling system in any prosodic study depends on
the purposes of the research. In the current research, we have reviewed the labeling system known as Tones and Break Indices (ToBI) (Pierrehumbert & Hirschberg, 1990) and its alternative labeling systems including Rhythm and Pitch (RaP) (Dilley, 2005; Dilley & Brown, 2...
In this study, 7 kinds of Persian analogical sound changes have been detected and classified in 12 analogical patterns in a set of 80 simple verbs. Those changes then have been analyzed based on two different but related optimality theoretic approaches including constraints reranking and input restructuring. It is shown that the analogical changes...
Stress deafness refers to the difficulties with the perception of stress in languages with non-contrastive stress. The purpose of this research was to study stress deafness in Tehrani and Kermani varieties of Persian. According to rhythm typology, these two varieties belong to two different stress-timed and syllable-timed types. A sequence recall t...
In rhythmic typology, languages are categorized into stress-timed and syllable-timed types. Earlier studies on these rhythmic types have emphasized on the isochrony of interstress intervals and syllables in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages respectively. However, some recent studies suggest that rhythm type results from the characteristics...
Khuzestani Arabic (ISO 639-3) is a minority language spoken in the southern west of Iran, in Khuzestan province (see Figure 1). The majority of its speakers live in Ahwaz, Howeyzeh, Bostan, Susangerd, Shush, Abadan, Khorramshahr, Shadegan, Hamidiyeh (Balawi & Khezri 2014: 107), Karun, and Bawi. According to Blanc (1964: 6), this variety of Arabic i...
Lexical borrowing happens when speakers of different languages come into contact and encounter new ideas and objects. The present work is a historical dictionary of Persian loanwords in English. The aim of this dictionary is to advance the historical study of lexical borrowing between languages in contact and to show how a collected
corpus of loans...
This study explored the consistency of locus equation slopes to serve as phonetic descriptors of stop place in CV utterances across voiced versus voiceless aspirated stops. Using traditional locus equation measurement sites for F2 onsets, voiceless labial and coronal stops had lower locus equation slopes relative to their voiced counterparts, where...
This study investigated the extent of vowel-to-vowel anticipatory and carry-over coarticulation in VCV utterances. Five speakers of American English produced open (V.CV) and closed (VC.V) syllable shapes with /i/, /ɔ/, /e/ and /u/ as “fixed vowel” contexts and /i/ and /ɔ/ as a “changing vowel” context. Medial consonants were /bdgptk/. Anticipatory...
This study investigated stop + vowel coarticulation as a coding mechanism for differentiation of stop place categories in an F2-defined stimulus space. Locus equations (LEs) were used to index the extent of coarticulation in three contexts: (1) onset stop + vowel utterances [.CV]; (2) within-syllable vowel + coda stop utterances [VC#], and (3) acro...
While the existence of the trough effect is unquestioned, its theoretical significance is unknown. A multifaceted instrumental approach - spectrographic, cineradiographic, and vocal tract modeling - was used to document the trough effect in open (V.CV) and closed (VC.V) syllable forms using a symmetrical vowel context surrounding labial stops. Coll...
The consistency of locus equation slopes as phonetic descriptors of stop place in CV sequences across voiced and voiceless aspirated stops was explored in the speech of five male speakers of American English and two male speakers of Persian. Using traditional locus equation measurement sites for F2 onsets, voiceless labial and coronal stops had sig...
The effect of emphatic stress on CV coarticulation was investigated in the speech of one male and one female native speaker of American English using locus equation slope as a measure of CV coarticulation. Stressed real word C1V2C2 tokens where C1=/b,d,g/ and V2=/i, I, e, ε, æ, u, o, squflg, a/ were put in carrier sentences with the, thirty, or two...
The articulatory blending of vowels and consonants has long been described by a coproduction model of coarticulation [S. E. G. Ohman, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 41, 310?319 (1967)]. Variation in intergestural timing of the C closure has been shown to produce instability in locus equation coefficients as place descriptors when simulated on the DRM vocal tr...
