Research on word stress in Iranian languages by Soviet and Russian scholars

In recent years, considerable material has been accumulated in the field of experimental studies Iranian languages, including works by Soviet and Russian scholars, enabling us to make new generalizations regarding acoustic characteristics word stress as part problem speech recognition. The study languages rather uneven: most focused on Persian, only a few covered other 11 described this article. addition, these have published therefore remain unknown wide international linguistic community. purpose article is sum up achievements scholars properties stressed syllable languages. Different views Soviet, foreign authors were compared. A number positions with weak points reasoning screened out, well-reasoned ones adopted probable traits Tonal was found Mazandarani, Persian Tajik; quantitative - Dari (Afghanistan), Sarikoli theoretically Rushani; multicomponental Abyanei, Gavruni, Gilaki, Pashto, Wakhi. Ossetic likely stress, but statistical proof hasn’t yet. Apparently, overall situation reveals that tonal types are typical for many Dynamic several one; spectral rarest feature. results achieved could be used automated transcription recognition services.