Post-focal and factive deaccentuation in Persian

Autor: Carlos Gussenhoven, Hamed Rahmani, Toni Rietveld
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Glossa, Vol 3, Iss 1 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2397-1835
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.328
Popis: Two experiments were carried out to examine whether the Persian word accent is deleted in two putative deaccenting contexts, post-focal regions and presupposed embedded clauses, to the extent that accentual minimal pairs become homophonous. A production experiment showed low F0 plateaus on the post-focal and presupposed words, while a perception experiment showed that such words are not recognized above a just-noticeable-difference baseline. The results confirm that accents are deleted in the contexts concerned and that accent location contrasts are neutralized.
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