Two experiments were conducted to determine whether the Persian word accent disappears in two putative deaccenting contexts, post-focal regions and presupposed embedded clauses, to the extent that accentual minimal pairs become homophonous. A production experiment showed low F0 plateaus on the post-focal and presupposed words, while a perception experiment showed that such words are not recognized above a just-noticeable-difference (JND) baseline. The results confirm that accents are deleted and that accent location contrasts are neutralized.
Cite as: Rahmani, H., Rietveld, T., Gussenhoven, C. (2016) Persian word accent is deletable. Proc. Speech Prosody 2016, 440-444, doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-90
@inproceedings{rahmani16_speechprosody,
author={Hamed Rahmani and Toni Rietveld and Carlos Gussenhoven},
title={{Persian word accent is deletable}},
year=2016,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2016},
pages={440--444},
doi={10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-90}
}