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The pure oral vowels of colloquial Tamil—an X-ray photographic study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

T. Balasubramanian
T. Balasubramanian
Affiliation:
(Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India)
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There are fourteen pure oral vowels in one of the several colloquial dialects of Tamil. On the basis of the author's proprioception and on the basis of a detailed spectrographic study, these were classified as front /i:, i, e:, ε/, back /ɑ:, ɑ, o:, o, u:, u/ and central /ə:, ə, ɨ:, ɨ/. X-rays were taken of the tongue-positions of ten of these vowels. These ten vowels are /i:, i, e:, ɑ:, ɑ, o:, o, u:, u, ə:, ɨ:/.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , June 1981 , pp. 27 - 34
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1981

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