in this research, we investigated the glottal wave of persian vowels, using electroglottography. in the first level, the properties of vowels glottal wave were analyzed. in the second level, the glottal wave between male and female speakers were  compared. contact quotient is the glottal wave parameter which was analyzed. data included six persian vowels and the glottal wave recorded using elec...

the present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin persian. to do so, 195 male and female native persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item discourse completion task (dct) to elicit the speech act of offer. thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

the development of the information and communication technology is considered as an effective step that has considerably changed in the educational goals, plans, and teaching procedures and improved educational effectiveness.  introducing ‘the software for assessing and teaching core vocabularies to non-persian speakers’, the present study aims to accentuate the role of technology in the educat...

learning language functions and the way they are implemented are the most significant objectives in foreign/second language teaching. since few studies have been conducted to identify and recognize the persian language functions and notions, the present study aims to identify the unmarked language forms, which are used in various situations of the five most common persian language functions, an...

The present research addressed the prosodic realization of global and local text structure and content in the spoken discourse data produced by Persian EFL learners. Two newspaper articles were analyzed using Rhetorical Structure Theory. Based on these analyses, the global structure in terms of hierarchical level, the local structure in terms of the relative importance of text segments and the ...

In the present cross-linguistic study two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of age and linguistic background on response tendencies of preschoolers toward forced-choice questions. A total of 163 2to 5-year-old children, including 63 Persian speakers, 57 Kurdish speakers and 43 English speakers, were asked a set of forced-choice, two option questions about familiar and unfami...

BACKGROUND Cerebrovascular disease leading to stroke is the most common cause of aphasia. Speakers with agrammatic non-fluent aphasia have difficulties in production of movement-derived sentences such as passive sentences, topicalized constituents, and Wh-questions. To assess the production of complex sentences, some passive, topicalized and focused sentences were designed for patients with non...

This research article studied the challenges Afghan engineering undergraduate students faced with apostrophe s in their conversations. For this purpose, 10 (7 male and 3 female) from different departments of Computer Science faculty Kabul polytechnic University were selected as informants research. All interviewed, recorded data was analyzed. It finally found out that experienced problems usage...