摘要：AbstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate whether variability exists in Persian yes/no questions and to examine the role of gender as the sociolinguistic variable and communicative functions as the pragmatic variable in the production of Persian yes/no questions. The study was conducted with the participation of thirty male and female Persian native speakers. The data of the study were the yes/no question variants made by the participants while performing the Edinburgh Map Task. Chi-square analyses were run on the data and revealed that variability could be observed in Persian yes/no questions. The results indicated the extremely marginal role of gender in the production of Persian yes/no question variants. Moreover, particular yes/no question variants were not mostly associated with particular communicative functions, indicating that pragmatic functions did not play a crucial role in the construction of such question variants.
