{"id":154,"date":"2008-07-03T14:36:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T19:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2009-03-23T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T21:09:39","slug":"phonology-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/phonology\/phonology-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Vowels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
[tag resources shortvowels_01]a[\/tag]<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\nis a low front open vowel, very close to [\u00e6]. It may be compared with [-a-] in ‘cat’, but without the [-y-] off-glide; it is also very close to [\u00e1]. (Compare and contrast the English man and Persian \u0645\u0646 m\u00e1n \u2018I\u2019).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources shortvowels_02]e[\/tag]<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\nis an open-mid front vowel, very close to [\u025b]. It may be compared with [-e-] in \u201clet\u201d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
[tag resources shortvowels_03]o[\/tag]<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\nis a close-mid to open-mid back vowel. It may be compared with the [-o-] in the second syllable of ‘colonize’. Normally, English \/o\/ is accompanied by a \u201cw\u201d off-glide (as in ‘roller’); this is not the case in Persian.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Listen to the short vowels in the following set:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
head<\/td>\na<\/em> <\/strong>as in sar<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_04]\u0633\u064e\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
secret<\/td>\ne<\/em><\/strong> as in serr<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_05]\u0633\u0650\u0631\u0651[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
slippery<\/td>\no<\/em><\/strong> as in sor<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_06]\u0633\u064f\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When short vowels are followed by a consonantal cluster within the same syllable, they are lengthened; as in the following words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
leaf<\/td>\nba\u05c3rg <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_07]\u0628\u064e\u0631\u06af[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
loose<\/td>\nha\u05c3rz <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_08]\u0647\u064e\u0631\u0632[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
he\/she\/it did<\/td>\nka\u05c3rd <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_09]\u06a9\u0631\u062f[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
affection<\/td>\nmehr <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_10]\u0645\u0650\u0647\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
inquiry<\/td>\npo\u05c3rse<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_11]\u067e\u064f\u0631\u0633[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
cold<\/td>\nsa\u05c3rd <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_12]\u0633\u064e\u0631\u062f[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
city<\/td>\nsha\u05c3hr<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_13]\u0634\u064e\u0647\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
fear<\/td>\nta\u05c3rs<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_14]\u062a\u064e\u0631\u0633[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
expense<\/td>\nxa\u05c3rj <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_15]\u062e\u0631\u062c[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
bear<\/td>\nxe\u05c3rs <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_16]\u062e\u0650\u0631\u0633[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
dry<\/td>\nxo\u05c3\u0161k <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_17]\u062e\u064f\u0634\u06a9[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
yellow<\/td>\nza\u05c3rd <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_18]\u0632\u064e\u0631\u062f[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
chest, breast; up; fruit<\/td>\nbar <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_19]\u0628\u064e\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
every<\/td>\nhar<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_20]\u0647\u064e\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
deaf<\/td>\nkar<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_21]\u06a9\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
mist, fog<\/td>\nmeh <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_22]\u0645\u0650\u0647[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
full<\/td>\npor <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_23]\u067e\u064f\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
head<\/td>\nsar <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_24]\u0633\u064e\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
king<\/td>\nshah<\/em> (short \/a\/)<\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_25]\u0634\u064e\u0647[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
wet<\/td>\ntar <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_26]\u062a\u064e\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
donkey<\/td>\nxar<\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_27]\u062e\u064e\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
(colloquial) throat, esophagus<\/td>\nxer <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_28]\u062e\u0650\u0631[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
happy<\/td>\nxo\u0161 <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_29]\u062e\u064f\u0648\u0634[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
gold<\/td>\nzarr <\/em><\/td>\n[tag resources shortvowels_30]\u0632\u064e\u0631\u0651[\/tag]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[tag resources shortvowels_01]a[\/tag] is a low front open vowel, very close to [\u00e6]. It may be compared with [-a-] in ‘cat’, but without the [-y-] off-glide; it is also very close to [\u00e1]. (Compare and contrast the English man and Persian \u0645\u0646 m\u00e1n \u2018I\u2019). [tag resources shortvowels_02]e[\/tag] is an open-mid front vowel, very close to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions\/2957"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.la.utexas.edu\/persian_online_resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}