Extracting components to determine the author's personal style is one of the things that can show the author's style more accurately and better based on measurable parameters. One of these parameters is the study of the relative frequency of a particular structure. In this regard, the study of the syllabic structure of the row and rhyme can be effective. For this purpose, this research has tried to determine the frequency of construction and the syllabic pattern of rows and rhymes in Hafez's poems. The study also aims to examine the extent to which Hafez uses each of the syllable structures in the row and rhyme and the arrangement of these structures in each syllable pattern. This research shows that the ratio of syllable construction in Hafez's poetry is somewhat in harmony with the natural Persian language. In terms of syllable pattern, the poet has used a wide variety of patterns. In terms of frequency, the patterns used also have different frequencies. Although the poet has shown no interest in using open syllables in the one-syllable pattern, he has used this syllable well in multi-syllable patterns. This study shows that the poet has limitations in using some patterns, such as not using patterns that start with cvcc in two-syllable patterns. This study also shows that in the application of each of the constructions in total patterns, the construction of cv is superior to the constructions of cvc and cvcc. In terms of the average use of each of the three constructions in all row and rhyme syllables, cv syllables are in the first place and cvc and cvcc syllables are in the next positions, which in terms of both rank and relative frequency is accompanied by spoken and written language.

This descriptive-analytical research aims to investigate the syllable structure of five-syllable words in the Persian language. In so doing, data were collected using the library method to study all of the five-syllable words in the one-volume Persian dictionary Farhang Rooz-e Sokhan (2004), and a corpus consisting of 1574 five-syllable words was extracted. The collected data have been studied regarding the types of syllable patterns used in the structure of words, paying attention to the effect of word formation and re-syllabification processes on the phonotactic arrangement and their moraic weight. According to the results, 62 syllable patterns have been identified in the structure of the studied words. Even though the frequency of the words with a closed syllable without a consonant cluster is higher in number due to the placement of closed syllables in different positions, the dominant syllable pattern belongs to the words with five open syllables and 1-2-1-2-2 moraic weight. The imposed restrictions were aimed at increasing the number of open and light syllables and reducing the consonant clusters. The frequency of open syllables is significantly higher than that of closed syllables, and word-formation processes such as derivation and affixation have played a role in it. However, the frequency of heavy syllables consisting of two or more moras is higher than that of light syllables with one mora. The derivational process of changing the closed syllable to an open one is related to a reduction in the syllable weight and the presence of extra-heavy syllables containing consonant clusters in words.

Although syllable is not a meaningful unit of language, it has major functional roles in language. One of the most important functional roles of syllable is the formation and organization of language’s phonetic system.Any language has its specific syllable construct (patterns), and specific restrictions for the combination and use of sounds in the syllable level. In addition, various languages usually tend to keep their syllable rules; so, syllable patterns usually are not loaned by languages. Therefore, it can be said that part of differences in phonetic systems in various languages are caused by differences in their syllable structure. On the other hand, due to its main function (formation and organization of language’ phonetic system), syllable is directly associated with the learning of language’s phonetic system. The present article deals with comparison of the common syllable patterns in Russian and Persian languages. The results show that the patterns of the Russian syllable are more diverse than that of Persian. Most important differences that are often problematic for Iranian learners are the heavy consonant cluster in the onset of Russian words and syllables, as well as the frequency of multi-syllabic words in Russian language.

The main purpose of this paper is to explore, on the basis of a quite extensive corpus (certain body of data) drawn from Azeri (different variety of Turkish) language, the distribution and the frequency of the syllable structures as well as the frequency of vowels in the syllable structures, in order to achieve the core and unmarked trends in the syllable structure and the more preferable syllable head in the phonological system of Azeri. According to the descriptive analysis, the CVC syllable and the CV. CV. CVC syllable were the most frequent syllable structures. The results of the vowel frequency in all syllable structure’ s analysis showed that the highest frequencies were for the low vowels [ӕ , ɑ ], the lowest frequencies were for the mid vowels [e, o, ø ] and the high vowels [i, u, y, ɯ ] are in between the two categories.

In this study, the syllable structure in Central Kurdish (Sorani) language has been phonologically investigated. In this investigation, the syllable structure has been compared with the views which are based on orthography believe in CGVCC, CCVC and CCVCCC syllable structures (based on the frequency of occurrence in previous studies). This study examines the presence of a high front lax vowel /I/ in underlying representation or its epenthesis in surface representation during derivational stages. For this purpose, both internal and external linguistic evidences are employed. An audio corpus of the speakers of Mariwan and Sulaimani, along with a questionnaire for determining the native speakers’ intuition in counting the word syllables have been employed as the research data. Evidences from vowel changes in cognate and borrowed words, diachronic data, the application of phonological rules in the syllable domain, sonority sequencing principle and selection of the most sonorous element as syllable nucleus and consonants as onset and coda, along with acoustic cues for the presence of this vowel in phonetic representation explain the phonological syllable structure in Central Kurdish. Basic tenets of generative phonology like referring to two levels of representation, and the phonotactic rules on the distribution of building blocks of syllable form the theoretical framework of this study. The results show that from two opponent hypotheses regarding vowel /I/ existence in phonetic form: 1) existence in UR and faithfulness mapping to SR; 2) lacking in UR and emergence in SR as result of vowel epenthesis rule, regarding above-mentioned phonological arguments, the former is confirmed. By accepting the presence of vowel /I/ in underlying representation and the similarities between glides and other consonants as the second member of the onset, the syllable structure in Central Kurdish, like standard Persian, is CV(C)(C). In phonetic representation onset clusters of consonant-glide is the result of vowel deletion due to the shared place of articulation with the following glide.

The present article dedicates to studying the syllable-internal structure in three Iranian Balochi dialects (IBDs) namely Mirjaveh Sarhaddi, Sarawani and Lashari dialects. The data analysis will be based on the onset-rhyme theory (e. g., Kurylowicz, 1948, Fudge, 1969, Vergnaud & Halle, 1979, Selkirk, 1982). Moreover, the syllable weight in IBDs will be discussed in the framework of mora theory (Hayes, 1985, 1989). The data have been collected during the research fieldwork in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The research findings demonstrate that the Balochi language is an example of a nucleus-weight language in which heavy syllables depend on the number of elements in the nucleus. Thus, CV and CVC are light syllables and CVV(C) syllable is counted as heavy syllable. Besides, the context-dependent weight of CVC syllables occurs in IBDs stress pattern system. Studying the syllable contact (word-medial consonant clusters) in IBDs shows that Balochi is among languages that admit all types of heterosyllablic clusters.

In Persian, the only syllable type with consonant clusters is cvcc, where its coda can be filled with two consonants. The present article attempts to find whether these two consonant conform the sonority sequencing principle or not. For this reason, the Persian words with cvcc syllable type are gathered from Persian dictionaries and are classified based on the vowel filling the nucleus of the syllables and the consonants in the first or second slot of the coda and the following results were obtained:a. Sonority sequencing principle is confirmed in clusters nuclei are /i,u,a/.b. Sonority sequencing principle is rejected in clusters with vowels /ae,e,o/.c. Based on sonority sequencing principle, vowels in Persian make up two Natural classes namely /ae,e,o/ and /i,u,a/.

In this paper, the acoustic features of syllable weight in Persian are investigated. Using PRAAT software, duration is analyzed as the acoustic correlates of syllable weight in Persian. The syllable weight ranking is cvcc>cvc>cv.

Objective: Obtaining the diadochokinetic syllable rates standard among the elementary students in 3, 8, and 19 educational zones in Tehran. Materials and Methods: 1997 students (980 girls and 1017 boys) randomly selected and examined. Frequency of /pa/, /ta/, /ka/ and /pataka/ in 5 seconds and the number of seconds for producing /pa/, /ta/, /ka/ and /pataka/ for 15 times were recorded for every student. Results: There is significant difference between means of time and frequency with increasing age. Means of some syllable rates were significantly different between girls and boys. Conclusion: Mean of syllable frequency was increased and the mean of syllable repetition time was decreased with increasing age. On the whole, boys seem to repeat syllables faster than the girls do.