ИСТИНА

Wakhi is one of the Pamir languages in the Eastern Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. It was considered expiratory (dynamic), i.e. a stressed syllable marker was supposed to be intensity. For our instrumental-phonetic study of the Wakhi word stress two experiments were conducted at the Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics of IAAS MSU. Since the Tajik variant of Wakhi was examined using a glottograph, this experiment has undoubted novelty. According to the results, the most significant parameters for indicating a stressed syllable appear to be pitch and duration, thus, the stress in Wakhi can be defined as quantitative-tonic.