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Persian discourse marker 'hāla' found to have multiple pragmatic functions

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A new study analyzes the Persian discourse marker 'hāla' ('now'), revealing its extensive multifunctionality beyond temporal use. The research examined 267 instances from spontaneous conversations, finding that 70% of 'hāla' tokens served two or more pragmatic roles. Textual functions, such as topic shifting and emphasis, were most common, followed by interactive and modal uses. Acoustic analysis indicated that duration and intensity are key prosodic cues differentiating 'hāla's functions, with textual uses being shorter and interactive uses showing higher intensity. AI

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Persian discourse marker 'hāla' found to have multiple pragmatic functions

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Soleiman Ghaderi, Moloud Asakereh, Kevin Tang ·

    Correlation between prosody and pragmatics: A case study of the discourse marker h\=al\=a `now' in Persian

    arXiv:2607.28359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Persian discourse marker h\=al\=a ('now') exhibits remarkable multifunctionality, extending far beyond its temporal adverbial role to encompass a variety of pragmatic functions. This study presents a pragmatic and acoustic analy…

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