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.
DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-90
Rahmani, H., Rietveld, T., Gussenhoven, C. (2016) Persian word accent is deletable. Proc. Speech Prosody 2016, 440-444.
@inproceedings{Rahmani+2016,
author={Hamed Rahmani and Toni Rietveld and Carlos Gussenhoven},
title={Persian word accent is deletable},
year=2016,
booktitle={Speech Prosody 2016},
doi={10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-90},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2016-90},
pages={440--444}
}