Handbook of Phonetics and Phonology of Modern Iranian Languages

Herausgeber: Falahati, Reza; Ghane, Zahra

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Produktbeschreibung

¿This handbook brings together current research on the phonetics and phonology of the Modern Iranian languages to provide a comprehensive overview of the main phonetic and phonological phenomena in these languages. These two fields, like other areas of linguistics, have undergone rapid advances in the past decade due to developments in experimental methods and phonological models. These changes render Iranian languages and their varieties a promising area of research which can make a significant contribution to general linguistic knowledge, and advance our understanding of cross-linguistic variation. The spread of Iranian language family is wide ranging, from Central Turkey in the west to the Uygur region of China in the east. In the North, it includes Ossetic and Yaghnobi, while in the South it includes languages such as Kumzari spoken in part of Oman. Despite the wide range of Iranian languages, only four of these languages are the official languages of the country in whichthey are spoken: Persian, Dari, Tajik, and Pashto. As a result, many Iranian languages have not been the prime goal of organizations/agencies which try to document and preserve languages. This handbook offers readers a state-of-the-art report of research in the field with a special emphasis on these less-studied Iranian languages and varieties. Relevant to linguists working in phonetics, both in Iranian and other languages, this book provides an overview of cutting edge and current linguistic knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore / Springer Singapore
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789819503827
• ISBN-10: 9819503825
• Artikelnr.: 74919139

Autorenporträt

Dr Reza Falahati is a lecturer of Professional English at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. He has the experience of teaching a wide range of courses in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in Canada, Iran, and the Netherlands. The results of his research have been presented in conferences and published in books and by the Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, and various journals such as Journal of the Canadian Acoustical Association and ESP across Cultures. He holds an MA in education (University of Tehran), an MA in linguistics (University of Victoria), and a PhD in linguistics (University of Ottawa).    Dr Zahra Ghane graduated with honors from the University of Isfahan (2019). Her research interests are analysis of Persian date under the rubric of role and reference grammar. She was awarded the German SFB fellowship in 2017 and 2018 to cooperate with the B04 research group. She is fellow of ERC project TreeGraSP since 2020 where works on the grammaticalization of discourse markers in Persian. She has published on ESP and culture and art. Her ongoing research is on discourse Studies, argument realization, and the interrelation of syntax and, semantics, and pragmatics.