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On the Alphabetic Notation of Certain Phonetic Features of Malayalam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Raymond T. Butlin
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IT is proposed here to offer some considerations on the representation of certain Malayalam sounds. It is not the purpose of these note s to present a detailed laboratory account of the acoustic and physiological phenomena to be symbolized, but while characterizing these phenomena sufficiently for the reader to appreciate their general nature, rather to consider certain specific phonetic circumstances of their occurrence and the significance of these in the elaboration of a notational system.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , February 1937 , pp. 437 - 447
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1937

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References

page 437 note 1 Our informants were Travaneore Brahmins.

page 437 note 2 Appendix to Arden's Grammar of Common Tamil (new and revised edition), published by the Christian Literature Society of India, 1934.

page 438 note 1 The expression “alternative phonetic terms” is used by J. R. Firth in The Use and Distribution of Certain English Sounds (English Studies, 1935).

page 439 note 1 The term has been adopted from Professor H. Levy.

page 445 note 1 L. Vishwanātha Rāmaswāmi Aiyyar, A Brief Account of Malayalam Phonetics.