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Lateral Approximants and its Phonetic and Phonological Realization in Bangla and Malayalam

Dr. Paromita Nandy, Ph.D. and Dr. Faroze Ahmad Chopan, Ph.D.

Abstract

This paper is a study on structural distribution of lateral consonants in Bangla and Malayalam for identifying the nature of mother tongue interference in case of lateral approximants in Bengali diaspora in Kerala. In Malayalam, there are two lateral approximants, which are phonemic in nature.

Keywords: Approximants, lateral, Malayalam, Bangla.

Introduction

Though all the most Indian languages have a unique alphabetic system, their linguistic characteristics are different in many respects. The phonic and allophonic nature of each language provides its word structure. The existence of distinctive phonemes may have different allophones which serve a distinctive part of linguistic behavior of that language. Since the articulation of syllables are on accordance with the phonetic characteristics of sounds combination, it is normal speech behavior of any native speaker to produce the structured phonological combination of their language while they speak another language, as the whole language faculty function in well-defined order. So conscious effort is necessary to overcome these phonetic features.

In this paper, we investigate the phonetic realization of lateral sounds that affects greatly when a Bengali speaks Malayalam. Though, there is only one lateral approximant, the alveolar lateral /l/, is available in Bangla, it has different phonetic realization; the retroflex and dental variable of /l/ may be functioned as a distinctive phonetic feature of Bengali language.

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Dr. Paromita Nandy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English
St. Peters Engineering College Hyderabad
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Dr. Faroze Ahmad Chopan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of English
St. Peters Engineering College Hyderabad
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