First Language Lexical Attrition among Kurdish-Persian Bilinguals: A Case Study in Eslam-Abad-e Gharb [PDF]
A significant percentage of the Iranians are bilinguals who learn minority languages in the family and the Persian language in schools. The permanent contact of non-Persian speakers with Persian and learning it as a second language has provided the ...
Kourosh Saberi +2 more
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Glide Formation in Kalhori Dialect [PDF]
In this paper, the aim is to analyze and describe the process of glide formation in Kurdish (Kalhori dialect) using optimality theory of concurrency approach.
Ebrahim Badakhshan, Mohammad Zamani
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ILexical Borrowing Hierarchies in Kolhari Kurdish: Gender, Age and Educational Background [PDF]
: This study is intended to investigate lexical borrowing in Kalhori Kurdish. The main lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs were examined to find whether native speakers prefer to use native words or loan words (of Farsi ...
Shahram Jamali Nesari, Habib Gowhary
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An Investigation of the Micro- and Macro-Structures of Narratives by Bilingual Kurdish-Persian Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) [PDF]
The present study investigated the effects of bilingualism and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on children’s abilities to narrate a story. To this aim, the stories narrated by monolingual and bilingual Kurdish-Persian-speaking children with and without ...
Somayeh Morovati, Ali Jamali
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Metathesis Phonological Process in Kalhori Kurdish within Optimality Theory
M etathesis is one of the phonological processes that serves the phonotactic rules of the language to improve the phonological structures of the language. Marked structures are not regularly preferred in the languages, so, in trying to force the marked structures of the language toward nonmarkedness, phonotactic rules of the language also monitor all ...
ALLAHWEİSİAZAR, Ghader +1 more
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Preference in Strategies of Hiatus Resolutions: An Optimality Theoretic Account of Clitics in Kalhori Kurdish [PDF]
Vowel hiatus as one of the intolerable phenomena in most world languages is caused after morphological processes like affixation and cliticization. Each language tries to resolve this situation using the resolutions at hand.
Tahereh Jafari, Mehdi Fattahi
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The Nature of Gradualness for Changes in Place of Articulation Features of Vowels in Serial Optimality Theory: Evidence from Three Iranian Languages [PDF]
In the earliest version of Optimality Theory put forth by Prince and Smolensky (1993/2004), the Generator is allowed to apply more than one process on the input.
Mehdi Fattahi
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The Discourse of Elderly People with Alzheimer ’s-Type Dementia: Conversational Coherence [PDF]
Coherence is one of the discourse-building features whose absence in the discourse of the elderly people with senile dementia of the Alzheimer’s type causes their discourse to become misunderstood.
Masoud Dehghan +2 more
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The Study of Certainty in Kurdish Women and Men’s Speech in Eslam Abad-E Gharb Based on Lakoff’s Dominance Approach [PDF]
The present study is an investigation in sociolinguistics, aimed to study linguistic differences in certainty in the speech of Kalhori Kurdish (one of the basic west-south speeches, common in west of Iran) speakers.
Hadis Hatami, Kourosh Saberi, Hiwa Weisi
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Objectives: Despite numerous studies conducted to explore the manifestations of aphasia in different languages of the world, language-specific patterns of aphasic patients in Kalhori as a southern dialect of Kurdish spoken in part of Kermanshah Province,
Fateme Hasani Jalilian +2 more
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