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¹⁹ Transcription conventions can be found in the appendix. For the most part, three-line transcription style has been used in this paper. The first line is participants' utterances. The second line corresponds to word-by-word translation of utterances in English. And the third line is a rough translation of a sentence or phrase in English. Second line has been omitted in instances where it did not carry further information, such as in line 1 of transcript. If English words occurred in the midst of a Persian utterance, such words have been retained in their original forms.

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