The Effect of British and American Accents on The Pronunciation of English Loan words in Persian

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Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Shahrekord University, Iran.

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This study aimed to explain the effects that the British and American accents have had on the pronunciation of English loan words in Persian within the framework of optimality theory and based on the phonological stance model. In other words, this research which was conducted in the area of loan (word) phonology, aimed at determining to what extent these two accents affected the input of English loan words, as well as coming up with an answer to the question “To which English accent is the pronunciation of English loan words in Persian closer? To this end, four important differences between British and American accents that could have affected the pronunciation of English loan words in Persian were scrutinized to figure out what phonological processes have occurred and what constraints (rankings) caused the application and non-application of these processes. The findings of the present paper indicate that the input of English loan words in Persian was in three cases affected by the American accent and in one case by the British accent. Furthermore, the pronunciation of English loan words in Persian is in three cases closer to the American accent and in one case to the British accent.

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Persian Language and Iranian Dialects

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Available Online from 20 April 2024

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