A New Way to Consider Rhythmic Types: Some Evidence from the Kermani Variety of Persian

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Allameh Tabatabai

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Regarding rhythmic typology, earlier studies have taken for granted the isochrony of interstress intervals and syllables in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages, respectively. However, some later studies have questioned the concept of isochrony and claimed that the rhythm type of each language results from the characteristics of its phonological system, not its temporal organization. So, while classifying the rhythmic type of languages according to the durational measurements, it is necessary to consider the phonological properties that lead to the formation of that rhythm type. As a piece of evidence, although the Kermani variety of Persian has been recognized as stress-timed according to the nPVI calculations, lexical stress has no significant role in the respective phonological system. In other words, it is the application of the weight-based vowel reduction which changes the nucleus of the monomoraic syllables to schwa, the property which yields a higher contrast between the duration of this short vowel and the other longer ones. Moreover, this process can ultimately delete the nucleus of these monomoraic syllables, which results in onset consonant clusters in this variety. Consequently, although various patterns of vowel duration along with complex consonant clusters are the characteristic features of stress-timed languages, in the Kermani variety these features cannot be pertained to this rhythmic type and lexical stress.

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