Persian Postmodernism: A Perception without Practice

Postmodernism and the Practice of Debate

Perception of gesturally distinct consonants in Persian

This study explores the sensitivity of the individuals to the residual gestures remaining after the simplification of consonant clusters. Three sets of target stimuli having full, reduced, and zero alveolar gestures along with the control stimuli were used in a perceptual identification task. The results of the experiment showed that subjects reliably distinguished the three target sets with va...

The Perception of Prosodic Focus in Persian

In a previous production experiment, post-focus compression (PFC) of F0 and intensity were found to be present in Persian. It was also shown that F0 and duration were the main correlates of prosodic focus in Persian. However, the perceptual relevance of PFC in Persian was not yet clear. The present paper reports the findings of an experiment on focus perception in Persian. Native speakers of Pe...

a decsription of persian deixis

the significance of the study of deixis was then mentioned. the purpose of the present study from the outset was to provide a comprehensive overview of all kinds of deixis in persian, describing and defining each in true while considering them structurally and semantically. chapter two consisted of two main parts. a review of the english studies in this respect, besides presenting persian liter...

Parallels between Perception without Attention and Perception without Awareness

Do studies of perception without awareness and studies of perception without attention address a similar underlying concept of awareness? To answer this question, we compared qualitative differences in performance across variations in stimulus quality (i.e., short vs. long prime-mask stimulus onset asynchrony) with qualitative differences in performance across variations in the direction of att...