Prosody

Year
2018
Type(s)
Author(s)
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
Source
(2018). In Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics, edited by Anousha Sedighi Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, 142-158.
URL
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-persian-linguistics-9780198736745?cc=ca&lang=en&#

This chapter provides an overview of the prosody of the Persian language. The chapter starts with a discussion of word stress and builds on that to cover stress at the phrasal and clausal levels. In the process, we will briefly consider some accounts of Persian prosody at the various levels and its interaction with information structure. In the end, we will briefly consider the phonetic realization of prosodic prominence and intonation in Persian.