نشریه علم زبان
پیاپی 14 (پاییز و زمستان 1400)

Since, based on previous findings, orthographic depth affects the nature of cognitive mechanisms, different patterns can be expected depending on the degrees of transparency or opacity of the orthographic systems of languages. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between rapid automatized naming, phonological awareness, and phonological working memory with reading speed and reading accuracy in Persian. The participants included 75 healthy and normal monolingual Persian-speaking children (mean age 121.6 months) studying in Grades 3-5 in Zahedan elementary schools. From each grade, 25 children were selected by purposive sampling. All children belonged to the middle and upper social classes. 9 subtests were administered to the children to measure the variables of IQ, reading speed, reading accuracy, phonological working memory, phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming. The results indicated that there is a strong and significant relationship between rapid automatized naming and reading speed. The relationship between this variable and reading accuracy was moderate and significant. Phonological awareness had a relatively strong and significant relationship with reading speed and reading accuracy. Phonological working memory had a significant and moderate relationship with reading speed. It did not have a significant relationship with the reading accuracy. Regarding the relationship between these cognitive predictors and reading in Persian, it can be inferred that it is very similar to the relationship between these variables and reading, which has been reported in inconsistent orthographies like English and Hebrew. The results indicate that the cognitive predictors are significantly affected by the orthographic transparency.

This study aims to analyze the correlation between ictus and acoustic features of duration, intensity and pitch in Persian folk poems. For this purpose, 51 lines of Persian folk poems were recorded, which consisted of 139 syllables in ictus positions and 139 syllables in off-ictus positions. Each line was segmented into syllables, feet and colons. The vowels in ictus and off-ictus positions were analyzed acoustically and the amounts of pitch, intensity and duration of vowels were measured manually. In order to compare the acoustic features of these vowels, Some Paired two-sample t-test were conducted. The results suggested that: a) duration of vowels in ictus positions is more than that of vowels in off-ictus positions. In addition, analytic statistics showed that the effect of ictus on the duration of vowels is significant; b) the mean intensity of vowels in ictus positions is less than that of vowels in off-ictus positions. Furthermore, analytic statistics indicated that the effect of ictus on the intensity of vowels is significant and c) the vowels in off-ictus positions have lower pitch values than those in ictus positions. Moreover, it was declared that the effect of ictus on the pitch value of vowels is not significant.

Ezafe has been studied for a long time by Iranian as well as non-Iranian linguists from different angles – from its morphological status – as a linker, clitic or phrasal affix- to its function – as a case-assigner, phonological linker or head marker inside NPs. This paper focuses on the status of Ezafe morpheme –e from all aspects of status, position in NPs and its function altogether chasing the goal of integrating all reliable ideas on it in one research. It shows Ezafe morpheme is an enclitic enters in the syntax of the phrase which links the head noun to its post-nominal modifiers such as adjective phrases, possessive NPs and nominal prepositional phrases. It attaches to the nominal heads as well as to the intermediate projections. The base-generated position of the head noun in Persian NPs is final but since there is a powerful tendency in prepositional languages for nominal heads to occupy the initial position of their projection, it moves to its surface position to the head of DP. Ezafe enclitic enters into the derivation of the noun phrase as a marker of this movement. This head-to-head movement happens in a cyclic manner, the nominal head uses the head position of all intermediate projections as the middle landing sites leaving a trace or a copy (according to the copy theory of movement, both in minimalist approach) behind, a copy which has sui generis morphological realization.

This study represents the Motion Event in the verb of going in the Holy Quran, based on the structure semantic network of the preposition الی /ila/(towards). This study aims to examine the verb of going and the preposition of الی (towards) on semantic network based on Tolmy’s Motion theory .In collecting said corpus, 88 verbs were extracted from verses consisting of the deep structure of the verb “going”; The relevant samples were collected and analyzed. The results showed that, the preposition ofالی has the most frequent usages. This preposition represents the end-destination concept, however, its usage is not limited in this sense. Also new concepts of direction (within, outside, high) and state (mental, physical) were encoded by this preposition. One of the results of this study, is representation semantic network of the position الی, which causes the existing knowledge of this concept in the Holy Quran to be promoted.

A question that historians and religious scholars have long been unable to come up with a convincing answer is on the story of Dhu Al-Qarnayn, which is described in the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran. Some call him the King of Yemen, some Macedonian Alexander, and many believe he is the Cyrus King of Persia. The name "Dhu Al-Qarnayn" is mentioned three times in the 18th Surah of the Quran (Al-Kahf, verses 83 to 98) that the story and his identity are always in question. With the aim of identifying "Dhu Al-Qarnayn" through descriptive-analytical method, this study tried to analyze the aforementioned verses of the Surah Al-Kahf (words and sentences) based on the three levels of Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA): critical description, interpretation, and explanation. The CDA approach emphasizes the need to pay attention to the preservation and observance of all aspects of language, context and discourse. The present study in the process of CDA of those verses concluded that Dhu Al-Qarnayn is not the Yemeni king, Macedonian Alexander, and the Persian king Cyrus, who were all conquerors. Dhu Al-Qarnayn is a prophet from God Almighty with a mission to reform and help the servants of God and lived in the Iron Age before the birth of Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad (PBUH).

This research has been done to investigate the impact of gender on different circumstantial adjuncts usage in the writings of foreign learners of Persian language based on Halliday's systemic functional grammar approach. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic method. The sample and the corpus of this research was the writing of 248 advanced female and male foreign learners of Persian language of the center for teaching Persian language in Ferdowsi university of Mashhad. Sampling method has been done in this order: first, the writing of 248 advanced female and male foreign learners of Persian language was separated based on gender (124 men and 124 women); Then, the circumstantial adjuncts in the texts was determined based on the segmentation of Halliday; after that, the distribution of all circumstantial adjuncts, was determined and shown by charts and compared. The chi - square statistical test was used to study the significance of differences between men and women. The results indicate that the women have used circumstantial adjuncts in their writing more than the men. Only, the men have used circumstantial adjuncts of cause more than the women. Advanced foreign learners of Persian language have used locational circumstantial adjuncts more than the other circumstantial adjuncts.

A dictionary is a repository of various kinds of linguistic information about words. It presents general information about words such as the words’ meaning, pronunciation, etymology, and the syntactic category to which it belongs, collocational or idiomatic structures in which it may be found. Given the significance of linguistic information presented in the dictionaries, Persian dictionaries suffer from lack of psycho-cultural information which reflects and presents the culture of a society and as the result, should necessarily be included in them. Keeping the importance of this kind of information in mind, and considering the significance of psychological factors in speakers’ knowledge of the world as well as considering sensory experience as the cornerstone of emotional and cognitive abilities and believing that reality is relative, drawing upon the newly proposed sensory concept of emotioncy, this study attempts to introduce emotioncy and its components (emotion, sense and frequency) as useful tools in dictionary making. To this end, the present study will shed some light on sensory and emotional experiences of words of the languages so as to ultimately uncover the origins of the gap in the current dictionaries and enrich them by adding some missed but important and useful information about the words of the languages. Finally, although the findings of the present study is suggestive, further research into the this may help develop it in a broader empirical framework.

Vocabulary differences between languages indicate differences in the cultures associated with each language. Polysemous words in any culture can be an expression of such lexical differences in a language. In cognitive semantics, there are different approaches to the polysemous phenomenon in language; The theory of Frame semantics is one of these approaches in cognitive semantics that has looked at the issue of polysemy from the perspective of semantic frames. The revised form of this theory has been realized in FrameNet . Semantic frames are semantic packages and each frame is composed of semantic components called frame elements. Semantic relationships in this network are presented as relationships between semantic frames. In this article, an attempt is made to provide a semantic and corpus-based analysis of the polysemy of the conceptual domain of the verb "Listening" in Persian based on the principles of the FrameNet network in English. Accordingly, the keywords "šeno", " šenid" and "guš" have been studied in the Persian database . Among the concepts found in sentences extracted from the corpus, six semantic frames of Perception_active, Perception_experience, Awareness, Compliance, Seeking and Attention and two "inheritance" Frame to frame relations between "Perception-Active" and "Perception-Experience" Frames and "use" Frame to frame relations between "Attention" and Perception-Active" Frames were extracted. The results of the analysis show that the current approach to the phenomenon of polysemy is an efficient approach to study the meaning of the verb "Listening" in Persian and can provide a picture of Persian language culture in this conceptual area.

The aim of the study is to investigate Malekshahi Kurdish metaphorical idioms with body part “dam”. Malekshahi is one main part of the Southern Kurdish in Ilam province. The data is collected from native speakers of Malekshahi Kurdish. A common part of metaphorical idioms of Malekshahi is investigated in the present research with a focus on two body parts “mouth” and “face” conceptualization, in light of cognitive semantic. Based on the research findings, a significant part of the metaphors has a structural nature. “Chewing”, “war”, “fire eruption” and “captivity” are some source domains and “debate”, “freedom”, “disregard”, “secrecy” and “sorrow” are some target domains of these metaphors. “container”, “volcano”, “animate”, “cage”, “respect” and “claim” are some cited mappings for word “dam” in Malekshahi Kurdish metaphors. The findings also show that “war” is the most frequent source domain and “heed” is the most frequent target domain in these metaphorical idioms. Differences between the frequency occurrence of these two domains arises from various mapping in frequent domains.

Based on linguistic typology approach and after analyzing the case-marking and agreement systems in (North and South) Bashāgardi according to Comrie (1978) and precise evaluation of findings according to the new theory of Zwart and Lindenbergh (2021), the present study aims to achieve a deeper explanation for those two systems’ function as well as the general alignment pattern of this dialect. In this regard, the research data has been gathered by interviewing ten native speakers, and then has been analyzed. According to the first findings, (North and South) Bashāgardi case-marking and agreement in non-past tense belong identically to the dominant and major pattern of (complete) accusative pattern, and in the past obey the dominant and shifting pattern of split-ergative or (complete) ergative pattern. Explanation of findings reveals that (North and South) Bashāgardi’s general alignment system uses the reverse and identical patterns in non-past and past tenses, respectively. Moreover, conditioned by the two categories of transitivity and tense, as the mirrors of inter-domain interrelations, these two language varieties exploit identical recessive and shifting alignment patterns in those two tenses as well, for which the appropriate explanations has been presented.

The present study examines the lexical and syntactic development of dissimilar Persian-speaking twins named Behzad and Behnam over a period of ten months (from the beginning of 21 months to the beginning of 31 months). This study seeks to find out what differences and similarities there are in the syntactic and lexical development of these twins, despite the fact that the two children grow up in the same language environment. The data of this study were collected through rapid observation and recording of data in a notebook, audio and video recording using a video camera and audio recorder, as well as the diary of the mother of the twins in which children's language products were recorded. The investigation of the collected data and their comparative analysis each month shows a significant difference between the lexical and syntactic development of the twins. Although in the early months of the study, Behzad had a much higher language ability compared to his twin brother, Behnam, from the fourth month of the study, a significant increase in Behnam's lexical and syntactic growth rate was observed. Considering that the language development environment of these two children, both in the family and in the kindergarten, has often been the same, the existence of differences in the lexical and syntactic developmental stages of these two children can be attributed to the difference in innate and inherited linguistic talent of these two children. Dizygotic twins do not have exactly the same chromosomal structure. The results of this study show creative mental activities in two children, which is evidenced by the existence of numerous cases of over-extension and overgeneralization.

There is a great deal of research in the field of lexical polynomials today.The present study also deals with the polynomial approach of verb (dinmeh) in cognitive approach to poetry in poetry (Achi Machi Sleep),  by Shivan Foomani.  This research can be the initiator of some studies that we can study dialects not only with phonetic and syntactic science but also with semantic knowledge. The statistical population of the present study is the most widely used verb in visual poetry in the poetry of Shivan Foomani Because in this poem, all kinds of verbs of seeing and its semantic variety are well mentioned. The important issue in this study is that How highlighting insemantic components of verb can create multiple meanings. There are three semantic components of the verb, the subject, and the comprehension. All three of these elements are equally involved in the semantic structure of the verb in constructing a syllable but as we move away from the meaning of the syllogism, this verb has changed and we have been highlighted in one or two elements. The research method is descriptive-analytical. The survey shows that this verb, in addition to the concept of seeing expressions of concepts: imagining, dreaming, imagining, assuming, forgetting, praying, cursing, hearing, eating, smelling, understanding, understanding, understanding, precision, sharing, receiving, witnessing, being It is facing, facing, experiencing and visualizing.