Abstract
The present article dedicates to study the syllable-internal structure in three Iranian Balochi dialects (IBDs) namely MirjavehSarhaddi, Sarawani and Lashari dialects. The data analysis will be based on the onset-rhyme theory (e.g. Kurylowicz 1948; Fudge 1969; Vergnaud and 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[A1] province, Iran. The research findings demonstrate that Balochi language is an example of nucleus-weight language in which heavy syllables depend on the number of elements in nucleus. Thus, CV and CVC are light syllables and CVV(C) syllable is counted as a heavy syllable. Besides, context dependent weight of CVC syllable occurs in IBDs stress pattern system. Studying the syllable contact (word-medial consonant clusters) in IBDs shows that Balochi is among languages which admit all types of the heterosyllablic clusters.
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