M Mahdavi Mazdeh @m_mazdeh

Poetic meter, Intonation, Syntax-Phonology Interface, Phonology of Iranian languages https://t.co/wVataXi77w Joined September 2020

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M Mahdavi Mazdeh @m_mazdeh

2 weeks ago

I think it's pretty cool that Persian, Arabic, and English (the only three written languages most Iranians ever deal with) agree on /-i/ being a suffix for making adjectives out of nouns.

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I was reading a linguistics paper, I saw the phrase "following much recent work", and suddenly its oddness struck me. I realized I might have never seen it outside of Ling papers. So I searched, and yes, most of the results are from Linguistics papers!

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M Mahdavi Mazdeh @m_mazdeh

7 months ago

When Google Scholar realizes you care about both stress and Persian poetry and decides to mess with you

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M Mahdavi Mazdeh @m_mazdeh

8 months ago

In which I argue that word order and stress are related, and that's why the elements that tend to come last in English (e.g. objects, manner adverbs) happen to receive sentential stress in left-branching languages (e.g. Turkish, Persian). glossa-journal.org/article/id/115…

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Maziar @Muzyar

8 months ago

An aid worker helped refugees fleeing ISIS in Syrian Kurdistan, she's now on the verge of execution in Iran. The death sentence for #PakhshanAzizi is confirmed by Supreme Court, and enforcement office is notified. Humiliated abroad, the Islamist regime terrorises its own peoples.

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M Mahdavi Mazdeh @m_mazdeh

9 months ago

The 500-days-of-summer meme where they both love OT scholarship, with Optimality Theory on the right and the Old Testament on the left.

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M Mahdavi Mazdeh @m_mazdeh

9 months ago

Is "ter-temiz" Turkish-style reduplication (like "simsiyah" and "sapsarı") or is it simply Persian "tar" plus "tamiz"? Persian speakers seem to have analyzed is as the latter (since they usually say "tar o tamiz"), but this Turkish reference grammar book says it's the former.

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Paul Middlebrooks @pgmid

9 months ago

Every neuron in your brain (every cell in your body!) has the potential for universal computation. @theHessam describes why that's important, and one way RNA, and it's secondary structure, could have evolved that ability using combinatory logic. braininspired.co/podcast/199/

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M Mahdavi Mazdeh @m_mazdeh

10 months ago

Linguists often portray their differences as deep disagreements on the nature of scientific inquiry and dismiss rival theories as philosophically flawed. But I feel it usually boils down to specific disagreements re/ which counterexamples we suspect can someday be explained away.

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Rayhan E. Asat @RayhanAsat

10 months ago

As a Uyghur lawyer, the cruelty of oppressive regimes is not foreign to me. But over the years, I witnessed how cruel the Iranian regime can get. Kinoosh Sanjari, who’s been imprisoned & tortured for two decades time, took his own life in protest against the regime’s detainment…

Mahsa Piraei مهسا پیرایی @mahsa_piraei

10 months ago

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Center for Human Rights in Iran @ICHRI

11 months ago

🚨 72-year-old Mahvash Sabet, a member of the persecuted Bahá'í community in Iran, is being denied critical medical care while imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Sabet, who suffers from a severe lung disease, requires specialized treatment that cannot be provided in prison,…