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Journal of Asian and African Studies, No.
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. Result
.. Phonetic and other observations on individual data
... Ho
i. Two forms provided by Hf, () /tanar/, () /sata/, for which the other
two speakers give /taran/ and /tasa / respectively, show curious metathesis
of consonants.
ii. Deeney (, p.xii) already notes that /a/ is raised to a mid central vowel,
which could be written as a short e, when it immediately follows a syllable
with a high vowel. In Hf’s pronunciation, /a/ in this context is almost regularly
fronted as well as slightly raised (, , , , , , , , , ,
, , , , ). Raising and fronting is also common in the pronunciation
of Hf. Unlike the raising of /a/ found extensively in Santali, this
height assimilation occurs only le to right, namely only when /a/ follows a
syllable with a high vowel and not when /a/ is followed by such a syllable.
iii. /o/ does not become open [] in any speaker’s pronunciation. Particularly in
that of Hf, /o/ is raised to // in /oCa/ contexts (, , , , ). On the
contrary, /a/ is raised to [] while /o/ remains a mid vowel in Hf’s pronunciation
in the same context (, , , , , ).
iv. In three instances (, , ), Hf pronounces a final // as [].
v. Hf pronounces the sequence / / as [ ] in () and ().