Early in the 20th century, it was reported by Chatterji (1926) that ta-hasanta was preferred for indigenous Bengali words (i.e. those derived from Prakrit) in contexts in which conjunct forms would occur for loans from Sanskrit, Persian or other languages. Khanda ta originated, apparently, as an alternate way to write ta-hasanta in such contexts. (It is not clear to me at this time when this in...

The purpose of this article is to briefly introduce an interactive P.O.S. tagging system developed as a project at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies in Tehran, Iran. The system is designed as part of the annotation procedure for a Persian corpus called The Farsi Linguistic Database (FLDB), and is the first attempt ever to tag a Persian corpus. In section I, the project itself wi...

This paper briefly describes the approach taken to Persian Plagiarism Detection based on modification to the approach used for PAN between 2011 and 2014 in order to adapt to Persian. This effort has offered us the opportunity to evaluate detection performance for the same approach with another language. A key part of the motivation remains that of undertaking plagiarism detection in such a way ...

â â  “macaronic” literally refers to an attribute for a thing which possesses two colors or two dissimilar qualities, and “macaronic verse”, in arabic rhetoric, points to a kind of poem whose words in one hemstitch or in the whole stitch are composed of words which include dotted letters (mo’jamah) whereas the words in another hemstitch or stitch possess letters with no dots (mohmalah...

The goal of the paper is to determine content concept OTHER as a member “self – other” binary opposition in consciousness Persian speakers based on results psycholinguistic experiment and their further cognitive interpretation. need for studying conceptual structure this by means determined fact that it substantially affects both interpersonal contacts representatives given linguistic soci...

this study examined the phonetic characteristics of persian sentence stress produced by native mandarin chinese speakers. we compared the phonetic correlates of sentence stress, namely fundamental frequency (f0), vowel duration, and vowel intensity in the production of 8 mandarin chinese speakers and 8 native persian speakers. results indicated that mandarin chinese speakers of persian could di...

The current study investigates reading aloud (i.e. pronouncing) words in Persian, a language that omits some of its vowels in its script. A word reading task employing a masked priming paradigm did not yield any differences in speech onset latencies between an onset-matching and an onset-mismatching condition. However, eventrelated potentials (ERPs) did reveal a difference in amplitude between ...

Sergeant Varisano was part of an art team called upon to document Operation Desert Shield in the Persian Gulf War. This watercolor, depicting the loneliness and responsibility of guard duty, also depicts all soldiers who, by virtue of being soldiers, set aside their individual autonomy for this period to be part of the team and the mission.