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286Center for Research in Urdu Language Processingto following three different syllable structuresunpredictably.1. CVV CVV2. CVC CVV3. VC CVVThe data of the English name Ada is shownbelow.TABLE 27: Examples of bi-syllabic names fromother languages.Name Nick Trans. Prob.Ada Dama da ma .4Ada Aedi æ di .1Ada Aadam a dm .2Ada Dunno dn no .1Ada Aadi a di .2And we can see that the nick rule wasapplicable but if we changed the consonantslike in ‘Dunno’ and then there can be no ruleapplicable.Now let us turn our attention to a nameThomas that has the same syllable structureas of ‘Tahir’. For Tahir people formeddifferent nicks but for Thomas they wereunable to formulate. There was a largevariability in the nicknames formed by thepeople.TABLE 28: Variations in bi-syllabic name from otherlanguages.Name Nick Trans.Thomas Thom to mThomas Thomy to miThomas Tom mThomas Tony niThomas Thomu to muAs we can see that the all the possibletransformations were same as for the Urdunames and if the consonants are notchanged then the nick rule is applicable.5.5 Effects of surroundingsThere is no particular rule for nicknames.However it is sometimes that the physicalappearance leads to some nickname. Also itis possible that you give some nick justbecause you heard it somewhere elsecorresponding to that name and you liked it.It is also possible that you have heard somenick without knowing its original name andthen you give that nick to any name withoutany reason.Let us look at the names of the fewcricketers like Graham, Bret and Dannis.TABLE 29: Table showing nickname names thathave no connection with the names.Name Structure NicknameTranscriptionStructureDannis CVV Lilly ll li CVCCVCCVVGraham CVV Gary a ri CVVCVCCVVBret CCVC Lee li CVVAllan VV CVC Dona o na CVVCVVNow see the nickname against Dannis. It issomething totally unrelated. It is because thedata provider knew the cricketers withsecond name and that he liked the secondname because it’s already on the syllabicstructure on nicknames. So he formed thenick of the ‘Dannis’ simply ‘lilly’. Same is thecase with Bret and Allan. Allan was giventhe nickname donna which cannot have anyphonological relation to that name.6. REFERENCES• Azevedo, Milton. 1981. A ContrastivePhonology of Portuguese and English.Washington, D.C.: GeorgetownUniversity Press• Hale, Kissock and Riss, ‘Evaluating theEmpirical Basis for Output-OutputCorrespondence’ (web resource)• Laderfoged,Peter. A Course inphonetics. Harcourt Brace Jovanovichcollege publishers.