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Sounds and their patternsin Indic Languages
Vol. 1: Sound Pattern & Vol. 2 Phonological Sketches
Pramod Pandey
Volume 1ISBN: 9789382993926 ` 795.00
Volume 2ISBN: 9789382993933 ` 1195.00
Sounds and their patterns in Indic languagespresents the phonological properties of Indiclanguages at the word level includinginventories and distribution of phonemes,allophones, syllable structures and tones.The general properties of the sound patterns of148 languages from a total of eight groups aswell as their phonological sketches arepresented in these books. The description of thelanguages is complemented with an exhaustivebibliography that lends the two volumes thecharacter of a handbook on the phonology ofIndic languages.
Pramod Pandey is Professor of Linguistics,Centre for Linguistics at Jawaharlal NehruUniversity, New Delhi.
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Volume I: Sound Patterns contains five chapters that address five main topics – the descriptive and analytical issuesrelating to the presentation of the phonological sketches in Volume 2; the complex linguistic situation in India; aclassification of Indic languages based on internal relations among them; facts and generalizations relating toconsonantal segments and their patterns and vowel segments and their patterns; and, lastly, the main aspects ofphonology above the segment, counting syllable structure, permissible segment sequences, stress, tone andphonological cues for grammatical structure.
Volume II: Phonological Sketches presents the phonological sketches of 148 languages organized into seven maingroups, namely, Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Tai-Kadai, Andaman group, ContactLanguages and an eighth group of Historical Varieties. The sketches are based on a critical evaluation of publishedworks 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 linguisticgroups of India
• 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
Sounds and their patternsin Indic Languages
Vol. 1: Sound Pattern & Vol. 2 Phonological Sketches
Pramod Pandey