The phonetics of stress manifestation: Segmental variation, syllable constituency and rhythm
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Report on Phonetics and Phonology of Sinhala
This report examines the major characteristics of Sinhala language related to Phonetics and Phonology. The main topics under study are Segmental and Supra-segmental sounds in Spoken Sinhala. The first part presents Sinhala Phonemic Inventory, which describes phonemes with their associated features and phonotactics of Sinhala. Supra-segmental features like Syllabification, Stress, Pitch and Into...
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تاریخ انتشار 2011