an idiosyncratic pattern of word stress in the Persian prosody tradition

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the department of Persian language and literature , university of Tehran

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It is conventionally accepted that Persian has a fix and final word-stress pattern. There is one case however, where this general pattern is deviated systematically,, namely: the stress pattern of the metra when recited traditionally by Persian prosodists. In this case, the stress pattern is not fix, contrary to the Persian word-stress pattern. It will be shown that this idiosyncratic stress pattern is the same as the Classical Arabic stress pattern. It will be argued that the Persian prosodists have used this odd stress pattern in the recitation of metra imitating the Arab prosodists' pronunciation of the metra. Subsequently, the later Persian prosodists have learned this imitated stress pattern through a purely oral educational system of prosody, preserved over centuries in Persian.

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