The present study attempts to analyze intonation in Central Kurdish, the Sorani variety spoken Slemani Iraqi Kurdistan. Intonation refers pitch fluctuations used by a speaker express meanings. To carry out analysis, embraces theory of Cognitive Phonology. claim that there is relationship between linguistic expression and its meaning. Accordingly, it hypothesized meaning an utterance shaped part...

Noting the polyethnicity of Pakistani state, author tried to trace «Kurdish in Pakistan». It was noted that representatives various peoples and nationalities live on territory Pakistan, who speak more than 60 languages. And one small communities among them are Iraqi Kurds, whose number, according some estimates, reaches 250 people. In 1659, Kurdish historian Akhund Mohmmad Saleh Zangana wrote b...

This paper presents a lexical account of the syntax of Sorani Kurdish prepositions within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Kurdish dialects have a rich class of prepositions and prepositional collocations with a complex syntactic behavior (Edmonds 1955, Mackenzie 1961). This situation results from severla factors. The first one involves the constitution of this clas...

This study investigated cross-cultural differences in the privacy regulation and perception of crowding amongtwo Iranian sub-cultures (Kurdish and Northern women).The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether Northern and Kurdish women differed in their desired and achieved levels of privacy in parks. The second purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between the d...

Learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. However, few studies have been done concerning the case of Kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. For this reason, the current study addresses this gap. It intends to investigate to what extent Kurdish learners are autonomous in learning English language. The study i...