Abstract
The present article aims to study tense and lax vowels in Kermani accent during the process of vowel reduction. In this study, ten participants (five men and five women with Kermani accent), were asked to pronounce 24 words and to repeat them for 3 times. The vowels of 12 words were in stressed syllables and the vowels of the others were in unstressed ones. The participants’ production was recorded using Shure microphone and was analyzed by PRAAT software (Ver. 5.2.24).Then the amount of duration, F1, F2 and F0 of vowels was measured. Results showed that tense vowels are longer in duration than lax ones, and F0 of vowels in stressed syllables is more than that in unstressed ones. Regarding F1 and F2, therefore, there is no distinguishing behaviour of the tense and lax vowels by which we could recognize them in unstressed syllables.
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