An Introduction to Assamese Phonology

affricate allophones āru Assam Assamese Language Assamese literature Assamese Script back vowels Bengali closed syllables colourful butterflies consonant cluster contrasts Deccan College dekhúoa dialect groups distribution Eastern emph emphatic stress freely varies frictionless continuant front vowels Gauhati University gemination GOSWAMI half length half long initially and lenis initially and medially Kakati Linguistics nasal release nasalized vowel occurs finally occurs in environment occurs initially occurs intervocally open juncture open syllables palatal phonemes phonetic range phonology phrase junctures pitch Poona pɔ'khilabilak pre-alveolar pre-velar preceded primary stress retroflex Sanskrit sentence stress single consonant slightly fortis slightly fronted slightly retroflex spirant stop element terminal junctures three consonant unreleased utterance initially variation velar Voiced alveolar voiced alveolar affricate voiceless spirant vowel cluster vowel nucleus vowels and back Western Assamese words zápdi আৰু সাহিত্যৰ