Vowel Quality in Persian: Stable or Unstable?
Vowel Quality in Persian: Stable or Unstable?

Vahid Sadeghi; Niloofar Mansoory Harehdasht

Volume 6, Issue 2 , January 2016, , Pages 61-80

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2016.57500

Abstract
  This paper addresses the validity of two hypotheses concerning changes of vowel quality in Persian. The theory of centralization claims that there is a strong correlation between vowel ...  Read More
Place Assimilation in the Persian Coronal Nasal: Categorical or Gradient?
Place Assimilation in the Persian Coronal Nasal: Categorical or Gradient?

Vahid Sadeghi

Volume 3, Issue 2 , January 2013, , Pages 57-75

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2013.35361

Abstract
  This study focuses on one particular sound change common in conversational speech, in which coronal nasal consonants undergo place assimilation toward the following syllable- or word-initial ...  Read More