摘要：This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in a PhD thesis, ‘The intonational grammar of Persian’ by Nima Sadat-Tehrani, accessible online via the University of Manitoba Library open repository, 13th November 2010 (http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/bitstream/1993/2839/1/DISSERTATION’.pdf). One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.
