The Intonation Patterns of Interrogatives in Persian

The Intonation Patterns of Interrogatives in Persian

This paper investigates the intonational properties of different types of interrogatives in Persian in the framework of the autosegmental-metrical theory of intonation. The structures studied are different types of yes/no questions, WH-questions, tag questions, and echo questions. The results, which...

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Main Author: Nima Sadat-Tehrani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dartmouth College Library 2011-01-01
Series:Linguistic Discovery
Subjects:
Intonation
Persian (Farsi)
Interrogative
Prosody
Contrastive focus
Question
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.389

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