Document Type : Research

Authors

• Batool Alinezhad
• Elkhas Visy

Esfehan university

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the correlation between pitch range and their pragmatic functions in conversational interactions in Persian. The present research is based on Pierrehumbert (1980) model and analyses changes of the fundamental frequency in order to play certain pragmatic functions in Persian speech. It should be mentioned that this study has no empirical aspect and it is confined to the pragmatic functions of the fundamental frequency in speech. Findings of the research show that there is convergence between rising and falling variations of pitch range and stating information structure (new/old), illocutionary force of the sentence, presupposition and turn-taking in conversation in Persian

Keywords

• pragmatic function information
• acoustic cues
• prosodic features
• fundamental frequency
• Pierrehumbert