this article provides an overview of natural phonological processes in the dialect of sistani persian spoken in iranian sistan, and reviews theoretical implications of these processes. a representative selection of processes in the language is examined in reference to conditioning by surrounding segments and conditioning in reference to syllable structure. while assimilation and dissimilation a...

the problem of discrimination between two stationary ar(p) plus noise processes is consideredwhen the noise process are different in two models. the discrimination rule leads to a quadratic form withcumbersome matrices. an approximate and analytic form is given to distribution of the discriminant. thesimulation study has been used to show the performance of discrimination rule. the cumulants of...