9789382993926

Sounds and their patterns in Indic Languages Vol. 1: Sound Pattern & Vol. 2 Phonological Sketches Pramod Pandey

Sounds and their patterns in Indic languages presents the phonological properties of Indic languages at the word level including inventories and distribution of phonemes, allophones, syllable structures and tones.

The general properties of the sound patterns of 148 languages from a total of eight groups as well as their phonological sketches are presented in these books. The description of the languages is complemented with an exhaustive bibliography that lends the two volumes the character of a handbook on the phonology of Indic languages.

Pramod Pandey is Professor of Linguistics, Centre for Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Volume 1 ISBN: 9789382993926 Volume 2 ISBN: 9789382993933

` 795.00 ` 1195.00

Foundation Books is an imprint of Cambridge University Press, India.

Sounds and their patterns in Indic Languages Vol. 1: Sound Pattern & Vol. 2 Phonological Sketches Pramod Pandey Volume I: Sound Patterns contains five chapters that address five main topics – the descriptive and analytical issues relating to the presentation of the phonological sketches in Volume 2; the complex linguistic situation in India; a classification of Indic languages based on internal relations among them; facts and generalizations relating to consonantal segments and their patterns and vowel segments and their patterns; and, lastly, the main aspects of phonology above the segment, counting syllable structure, permissible segment sequences, stress, tone and phonological cues for grammatical structure.

Volume II: Phonological Sketches presents the phonological sketches of 148 languages organized into seven main groups, namely, Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, Andaman group, Contact Languages and an eighth group of Historical Varieties. The sketches are based on a critical evaluation of published works on the languages, with a few original contributions.

These books • present the phonological facts of Indic languages around topics that are of interest in linguistics and allied disciplines •

present a general as well as comparative account of the word phonological features of the different linguistic groups of India

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include exhaustive lists of the phonological inventories and the languages in which they occur give an overview of studies carried out on sound patterns of Indic languages by providing an up-to-date bibliography Available from:

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