there are two common ways to assign relative importance in spoken language: tonic prominence and thematization. the former is expressing the main points of information units in speech (halliday, 1994), and the latter is putting an element at the beginning of a clause. this study explores how relative importance is realized in english and persian. it also investigates how advanced persian learne...

This paper presents a rule-based method for transcription of English words into the PersoArabic orthography. The method relies on the phonetic representation of English words such as the CMU pronunciation dictionary. Some of the challenging problems are the context-based vowel representation in the Perso-Arabic writing system and the mismatch between the syllabic structures of English and Persi...

abstract translation of literary texts, especially poetry, is one of the most difficult tasks; it requires mastery and knowledge of the language system and culture, and lack of this might lead to wrong translation. this study aimed to examine the loss and gain of the sociocultural implicit meanings in the english translations of the mu’allaqat, and assess whether the translators of the mu’allaq...

Small acoustic differences in duration, intensity and vowel formants were found between initial and final accented target words in Persian, by the side of substantial differences in f0. On the basis of these data and the results of a perception experiment in which an f0 continuum was superimposed on a single source utterance, we conclude that Persian has a Japanese-style pitch accent, not an En...

this paper compares clusters of aligned persian and english texts obtained from k-means method. text clustering has many applications in various fields of natural language processing. so far, much english documents clustering research has been accomplished. now this question arises, are the results of them extendable to other languages? since the goal of document clustering is grouping of docum...

This report describes the Shiraz project MT prototype for a Persian to English machine translation system using typed feature structures and unification. An overview of the linguistic properties of Persian is presented and the morphological and syntactic grammars developed within the Shiraz project are discussed. The underlying model for the system is a layered chart, capable of representing he...

the main objective of the present study is to elaborate the contrasts between males and females in their use of different strategies of complaint in english and persian and ascertain the degree to which independent variables like gender and language affect the application of these strategies during informal communication. furthermore, it offers comparable corpora which provide a good basis for ...

Modern Persian permits coda clusters, many of which violate the Sonority Sequencing Principle. In a syllable counting task, Persian speakers consistently perceived clusters in CVCC target items as monosyllabic, whereas English speakers generally perceived clusters existing in English as monosyllabic but those not existing in English as bi-syllabic. Moreover, the latter were perceived as monosyl...

BACKGROUND Neural correlates of single word reading with the use of a functional MRI (fMRI) scan have been widely studied in different languages. These study patterns of cortical activation differ in different languages. In this report we used a similar technique to study cortical activation when reading single Persian words. METHODS The subjects were comprised of nine healthy right-handed bi...