The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI): A Research Overview There have been a number of important efforts to map out the languages of Iran, but until now no language atlas, or even a comprehensive and detailed country-level language map, has been produced. One of the recent initiatives which aims to fill this gap is the online Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI) (http://iranatlas.net). This article delineates objectives of the ALI research programme, atlas architecture, research methodology, and preliminary results that have been generated. Specific topics of interest are the structure and content of the linguistic data questionnaire; the handling of contrasting perspectives about the status of "languages" and "dialects" through a flexible multidimensional classification web; and the role of ongoing comparisons between language distribution assessments and hard linguistic data.
Most studies on language contact in Iran have focused on the effects of Persian on the country's minority languages. There are also many cases where large regional languages such as Azeri, Kurdish, Balochi, Lori and Bakhtiari exert an influence on smaller regional languages, and a few studies have appeared on this topic. This paper examines the effects of language contact in the city of Juneqan in Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran, where the position of two minority languages-Bakhtiari and Qashqai Turkic-appears to be evenly balanced. The analysis is based on a comparison of L1 and L2 speech from two bilingual individuals with a different L1, as found in responses to the Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI) questionnaire. Drawing on examples from lexicon, phonology and morphosyntax, the article argues that the equivalent influence of each language on the firstand secondlanguage speech of members of the other language community is likely achieved not by simple equal status, but through the counterbalancing of regional Bakhtiari dominance with majority mother-tongue Turkic population in this city.
This paper examines the distribution of utterance final pitch rises in dialogues with different task structures. More specifically, we examine map-task and topical conversation dialogues of Southern Standard British English speakers in the IViE corpus. Overall, we find that the map-task dialogues contain more rising features, where these mainly arise from instructions and affirmatives. While rise features were somewhat predictive of turn-changes, these effects were swamped by task and role effects. Final rises were not predictive of affirmative responses. These findings indicate that while rises can be interpreted as indicating some sort of contingency, it is with respect to the higher level discourse structure rather than the specific utterance bearing the rise. We explore the relationship between rises and the need for coordination in dialogue, and hypothesize that the more speakers have to coordinate in a dialogue, the more rising features we will see on non-question utterances. In general, these sorts of contextual conditions need to be taken into account when we collect and analyze intonational data, and when we link them to speaker states such as uncertainty or submissiveness.
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