A Pitch Accent Position Contrast in Persian
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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 English-style stress contrast.
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