This document discusses the difference between tonal and intonational languages. It asks whether Persian is tonal or intonational. It then provides information about spectrograms, pitch contours, focus, ToBI annotation conventions, and intonational patterns in Persian. The document concludes by recommending further study on analyzing the intonation system of Persian, pitch accent in Persian, and several references on intonation phonology.

1. Adel Rahimi
Rahimi.adel@mehr.sharif.edu
Sharif University Of Technology
Nov 2016

2. Tonal vs Intonational
• Tonal is the frequency change which leads to the meaning change in
the word
• Intonational is the frequency change in the utterance
Is Persian Intonational or tonal?

3. What is spectrogram

4. Spectrogram

5. What is pitch contour?

6. What is pitch contour?

7. Focus

8. What is ToBI?
ToBI (an abbreviation of "tones and break indices") is a set of conventions for transcribing
and annotating the prosody of speech. The term "ToBI" is sometimes used to refer to the
conventions used for describing English specifically, but ToBI systems have been defined for
a number of other languages; for example, J-ToBI refers to the ToBI conventions for Tokyo
Japanese.

9. Intonational patterns in persian

12. Headed Structure Constraints

13. Coordinated Constraints

14. Further Study
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