Two-level morphology is a system which relates lexical representations of morpheme sequences directly to their surface/phonetic forms, without intermediate derivational stages as in most other generative approaches. It thus draws its name from the restriction of phonology to two levels of representation, and perhaps should more properly be known as two-level phonology. The morphological compone...

INTRODUCTION The Dysphagia Handicap Index (DHI) is one of the instruments used for measuring a dysphagic patient's self-assessment. In some ways, it reflects the patient's quality of life. Although it has been recognized and widely applied in English speaking populations, it has not been used in its present forms in Persian speaking countries. The purpose of this study was to adapt a Persian ve...

BACKGROUND Due to negligence, Persian (Iranian) traditional medicine has had a weak presence in the world of research for a long time. However, in recent years, a variety of activates by research and faculty centers have created awareness and a platform to introduce and promote Persian medicine to the world. The aim of this study is to present and analyze scientific achievements of Persian medi...

In this paper building statistical language models for Persian language using a corpus and incorporating them in Persian continuous speech recognition (CSR) system are described. We used Persian Text Corpus for building the language models. First we preprocessed the texts of corpus by correcting the different orthography of words. Also, the number of POS tags was decreased by clustering POS tag...

Certain assumptions about the nature of phonology must be considered, even lacking agreement on which assumptions to make. First and foremost, deciding whether phonology is based on rules or constraints, or a mix of the two, requires having objectively expressible statements of phonologies within different frameworks whose consequences can be compared. Therefore the theories must have a definit...

Numerous studies have investigated the health problems reported by veterans of the Persian Gulf War, but important questions remain. Epidemiologic studies have consistently indicated that Gulf War veterans report unexplained symptoms at significantly higher rates than veteran comparison groups but that they have not experienced excess rates of disease-related mortality. Addressing unanswered qu...

The main concern of the present study was to compare Iranian monolingual and bilingual EFL students’ listening comprehension in terms of Latinized Persian subtitling of English movie to see whether there was a significant difference between monolinguals and bilinguals on immediate linguistic comprehension of the movie. Latinized Persian subtitling was representing Persian language in Latin scri...

Computational phonology approaches the study of sound patterns in the world’s languages from a computational perspective. This article explains this perspective and its relevance to phonology. A restrictive, universal property of phonological patterns— they are regular—is established, and the hypothesis that they are subregular is presented. This article is intended primarily for phonologists w...

Clusters are described by phonotactics, which determines phonological conditions and constraints on the occurrence or co-occurrence of sounds in a given language (e.g., [pstr-] in Polish pstrąg ‘trout’, [-ps] in English lapse). Syllables, morphemes or words serve as domains of phonotactics. However, the functions of phonotactics – to achieve easily pronounceable and perceptable sequences – may ...