24.1171, Books: Some Issues in Gujarati Phonology: Modi

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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 19:52:16
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Some Issues in Gujarati Phonology: Modi

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Title: Some Issues in Gujarati Phonology 
Series Title: Languages of the World 44  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu/ 

Author: Bharati Modi

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862884216 Pages: 274 Price: Europe EURO 148.00

Abstract:

This work is an attempt to study some salient features of Gujarati Phonology;
especially of a standard dialect of the language. The work began by collection
of the phonic substance of the language. No predecided, prefixed, theory or
methodological frame was considered as a model. Only predecided part of the
study was to stress the importance of phonetics in phonology, and to give
weightage to the perception of the language users. The phonetic variation at
the production end and the phonemes at the perception end are irresistibly
challenging topics in the field of phonology.

The study has concentrated on some aspects of vowel phonology: the specific
features of Gujarati vowel system has compelled me to do so.

One such feature of vowels makes them vulnerable to prosodies. Speech has its
own musical score ranging from definite articules to laryngeal prosodies.
Vowels with the optimal manifestation of voice create the vocalic continuum.
The murmur prosody in Gujarati is the most interesting peculiarity of such
continuum. It was noted that almost 50% of Gujarati speakers speak with a kind
of phonation which inhibits murmuredness. Tomograms are provided to show the
difference between two phonations types.

The issue of Gujarati having six vowel phonemes or eight is discussed in
detail to show that variations in mid-vowels pose a theoretical question as to
when does a feature serve as a contrastive feature phonemically.

Another pertinent feature of Gujarati vowel is nasalization. Various nasality
manifestations are discussed here.

The dynamics of processes such as murmur, lowering of the vowels, nasalization
call for the syllabication of the language.

The work concludes by attempting to give some rules (for the prosodies and
processes) following dependency phonology and autosegmental phonology.

Dr.Bharati Modi was a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of
Linguistics at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. Currently
she is actively associated with the Akshar Trust which runs one of the most
successful schools for the hearing impaired in Baroda, India. The Ministry of
Education in India overseas the Rehabilitaion Council that operates
specialized Training Programs for teachers of the Hearing Impaired Students.
Since her retirement from active academics Dr. Modi has been part of the
faculty for this specialized training program for the past 20 years. She
teaches a range of subjects that cover Phonetics, Language Component, and
Language acquisition.

Linguistic Field(s): Indo-European Linguistics
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Gujarati (guj)

Written In: English  (eng)

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