عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
TL56742
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
A Sociophonetic Analysis of Farsi Vowel Systems Among Heritage Speakers and Immigrants of Persian Ethnicity in Oklahoma
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Sheikhbahaie, Masoud
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Preston, Dennis R.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oklahoma State University
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2020
GENERAL NOTES
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74 p.
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Body granting the degree
Oklahoma State University
Text preceding or following the note
2020
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This study investigates the variation of Farsi vowel formants - F1 and F2 - among Persian-American heritage and immigrant speakers in Oklahoma, a topic which has been under-investigated. The participants were a group of 20 Persian adult immigrants - ten males and ten females - and 20 US-born Persian-American heritage speakers of Farsi - ten males and ten females. Data were gathered in the form of acoustic audio recordings of a 150-word word list carefully pronounced by the participants. A lexicon was created for the purpose of forced alignment, and vowel formants were extracted using DARLA. The vowel plots showed substantial similarity among all participants to the Farsi monolingual speakers' in Iran regarding the back vowels /u/, /o/ and /ɒ/. However, the front /i/ and /e/ sounds were a bit more back than that of the monolinguals. In regard to /æ/, both groups of female Persian immigrants and female Persian heritage speakers showed similarity to that of the monolinguals; however, male Persian immigrants and male Persian heritage speakers had a relatively raised /æ/. Overall, the whole vowel space for both the heritage speakers and immigrant generation is smaller and more centralized than that of the monolinguals.
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Ethnic studies
Subject Term
Linguistics
Subject Term
Sociolinguistics
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Sheikhbahaie, Masoud
PERSONAL NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Preston, Dennis R.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITY
Oklahoma State University
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مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Thesis]
276903
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