Research Paper
Passive Structure in Persian: A Minimalist Approach
Passive Structure in Persian: A Minimalist Approach

Mazdak Anoushe

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, Pages 1-20

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56604

Abstract
  Whether or not there is a verbal passive construction in Persian has been ‎highly controversial. Traditional grammarians and most linguists have ‎argued that there is a structural ...  Read More
Research Paper
Explaining Different Pronunciations of The Enclitic Verb /-ast/ in Different Contexts: An Optimality Theoretic Account
Explaining Different Pronunciations of The Enclitic Verb /-ast/ in Different Contexts: An Optimality Theoretic Account

Bashir Jam

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, Pages 21-40

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56640

Abstract
  The third person singular enclitic verb /-ast/ which is equivalent to English verb “is” undergoes the highest number of  phonological processes among Persian enclitic ...  Read More
Research Paper
Auxiliation in Persian and Evolution of Passive Structure from Stative to Dynamic Passive
Auxiliation in Persian and Evolution of Passive Structure from Stative to Dynamic Passive

Faezeh Saadat Mostafavi

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, Pages 41-60

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56641

Abstract
  Auxiliation is a subfield of the more familiar field of grammaticalization in world languages and deals with the way in which complex lexical verb structures develop over time into ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Position of Stress in Persian Bound Morphemes
The Position of Stress in Persian Bound Morphemes

Aliyeh Kord-e Zafaranlu Kambuziya; Farzaneh Tajabadi; Ferdows Aghagolzadeh

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, Pages 61-80

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56642

Abstract
  Stress refers to the degree of force used in producing a syllable. All of the words in lexicon regardless of the apparent structure and the number of their syllables have their own ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Analysis of Persian Vowels Glottal Wave Using Electroglottography
The Analysis of Persian Vowels Glottal Wave Using Electroglottography

Nda Musavi; Batool Alinezhad

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, Pages 81-97

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56643

Abstract
  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 ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Application of Corpus-based Method of Metaphorical Pattern Analysis to Persian Language: the Study of Anger Target Domain
The Application of Corpus-based Method of Metaphorical Pattern Analysis to Persian Language: the Study of Anger Target Domain

Amirsaeid Moloodi; Gholamhossein Karimi Doostan; Mahmoud Bijankhan

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, Pages 99-118

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56645

Abstract
  The purpose of the present research was the study of metaphorical conceptualization of the "anger" target domain in Persian, based on conceptual theory of metaphor. For the first time ...  Read More
Research Paper
The Role of Orthography in Facilitation of the Perception of Heterographic Homophones
The Role of Orthography in Facilitation of the Perception of Heterographic Homophones

Fahimeh Nasib Zarraby; Shahla Sharifi

Volume 6, Issue 1 , September 2015, Pages 119-135

https://doi.org/10.22059/jolr.2015.56646

Abstract
  The role of orthography in difficult speech perception tasks has already been proved (Dehaene & Cohen, 2011). Since the processing of heterographic homophones is believed to be ...  Read More