30.3793, Books: An evidence-based new analysis of Persian word prosody: Rahmani

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:32:39
From: Door Spruijt [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: An evidence-based new analysis of Persian word prosody: Rahmani

 


Title: An evidence-based new analysis of Persian word prosody 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/an-evidence-based-new-analysis-of-persian-word-prosody 


Author: Hamed Rahmani

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933240 Pages: 183 Price: Europe EURO 30


Abstract:

In addition to vowels and consonants, phonological representations consist of
tones. Languages exploit tones in strikingly different ways. In languages that
do not use tones to distinguish content words or familiar morphological
classes, tones are often seen as a characterising feature of prosodic domains
like foot, phonological phrase, etc. While this may be true for many familiar
languages, it is ultimately an empirical question as to how tones function in
the grammar of a given language. This dissertation departs from previous works
on Persian prosody, by providing two novel findings. First, the high-pitched
syllable in a word’s citation form, earlier analysed as its ‘word stress’, is
due to a morpheme, whose sole exponent is a High tone, and whose location is
entirely governed by syntax. This tonal morpheme makes a substantial
contribution to the unravelling of semantic interpretations from linear
strings of segmental morphemes by its promiscuous marking of the primary
syntactic constituents of sentences, where it crucially distinguishes nominal
from verbal elements. Second, independently of the syntactically-governed
tone, Persian does in fact have metrical stress in the form of iambic feet, as
evidenced by several nontonal phenomena such as vowel harmony and vowel
deletion. These findings are supported by the results of the production,
identification and sequence-recall experiments reported in this dissertation.
This study has significant implications for both phonologists and
syntacticians. On the one hand, from the perspective of prosodic typology,
Persian stands out of the coexistence of postlexical tonal assignment and
word-based metrical structure, whereby the two do not communicate with each
other. On the other hand, because of its apparently unique way to reflect the
syntactic configurations, The Persian tone presents itself as a powerful tool
for looking into language structure.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Subject Language(s): Persian, Iranian (pes)


Written In: English  (eng)

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