This book aims at providing comprehensive guide to technical terms in phonetics and phonology. In addition to compact definitions and explanations of terms used in the phonetic sciences, as well as summaries of phonological processes and the different approaches to phonology that have evolved since the time of Panini, the reader will find examples and illustrations supporting those explanations.
A Glossary of Phonetics and Phonology not only glosses terms but also provides the possible configurations for and explanations of IPA symbols used in representing universal, as well as language-specific sounds. Entries have been furnished, where necessary, with views and interpretations of linguists, as well as with suggested readings on concepts and issues of central importance to phonetics and phonology. A directory of frequently used signs and a guide to transliteration of IA used in notations of the Indic languages are furnished in p. 16. Towards the end of the book, a list of readers and references is given to aid a reader interested in details of researches and contributions on the fields covered in this work. Besides, the index of terms at the end of the book is intended to help the reader locate entries that are subsumed under alphabetically arranged head- words and umbrella terms. In the layout of the text, a headword is typed in bold letters while significant entries covered by a head-word are indicated by bold but italicised typeface.
Languages are many, and the sound pattern of each language contains within it universal as well as specific elements. The idea of exploring the phonological patterns of many languages rather than confining to only English (simply because this book would be written in English) occurred to me when I started field investigation on the extreme eastern dialects of NIA merging with the Indo Mongoloid languages of Northeast India. Though the bulk of examples are taken from English, and to a considerable extent from the IA languages, an attempt has been made to compare and illustrate phenomena from the sound inventories of many languages, even a few less explored ones.
Throughout the work, the main emphasis has been on describing the speech act.
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