Syllable Structure and Word Stress in Dogri

In the field of linguistics, prosody deals with the elements of language that are properties of syllables and larger units of speech. Stress and tone are the major elements of what constitute the prosody within a language, and these have been the least discovered areas within the field of research....

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Published inICFAI journal of English studies Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 115 - 130
Main Author Krishna, Devina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hyderabad IUP Publications 01.09.2020
Subjects
Acoustic analysis
Acoustics
Indo-Aryan languages
Language
Linguistics
Metrical phonology
Phonetics
Phonology
Prosodic features
Stress
Syllabification
Syllable structure
Syllables
Tone
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Summary:In the field of linguistics, prosody deals with the elements of language that are properties of syllables and larger units of speech. Stress and tone are the major elements of what constitute the prosody within a language, and these have been the least discovered areas within the field of research. Dogri is a major language belonging to the western Indo-Aryan group of languages; however, the description of its prosodic features has been neglected. It is a tonal language with stress occurring on syllables within words. This paper focuses on unearthing the syllable structure in Dogri and rules of syllabification, i.e., how syllables are divided in Dogri. The second half of the paper focuses on the word stress phenomenon in Dogri, taking into account the different patterns of syllable in Dogri and the assignment of stress on those patterns. Word stress phenomenon in Dogri has been examined taking into account the Metrical Phonology framework. Further, it is followed by instrumental acoustic analysis of the words of various syllable structure, as a close examination by instrumental means would show that the variety of syllables are spoken with varying degrees of breath force.
ISSN:0973-3728