Document Type : Research

Authors

• mahmood bijankhan ¹
• Vahideh Abolhasani ²

¹ department of general linguistics, faculty of humanities, university of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Bahonar University, Kerman

Abstract

Tonal features and pitch accent model of clitic groups and phonological words show that these are two different phenomena. The difference is that the pitch accent model of H* is located on the last syllable in phonological word and on the syllable before clitic in clitic group. Therefore, clitic is independent of phonological word from tonal viewpoint. Also there is no sign of H-rising edge tone after the non-final AP; rather, the edge tone is L-and the rising of F0 on clitic is called Peak delay

Keywords

• pitch stress
• clitic
• phonological word
• peak delay