Shakuntala Mahanta
Biographic Data
| ID | 209399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shakuntala Mahanta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shakuntala |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahanta |
| SIGNATURE | MAHANTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4254-9080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sound change and tonogenesis in Sylheti
Our study investigates the nature of tonogenesis in Sylheti, which was triggered by the merger of aspirated and unaspirated consonants in the language. We propose that the tonogenetic factors contributed by the four-way laryngeal contrast condition a three-way tonal contrast in Sylheti depending on the voicing and syllabic position of the sound. We take into consideration both monosyllabic and disyllabic sets of words and claim that Sylheti has t…
Pitch Range and Voice Quality in Dimasa Focus Intonation
This paper presents an analysis of Dimasa focus intonation. The acoustic analysis shows that narrow focus sentences undergo a jump in the pitch range irrespective of the underlying tonal value of the morpheme it attaches to. In addition to f0 expansion, the prosodic property of focus in Dimasa was found to have different (tense) phonation in morphologically marked narrow focus sentences when compared to the broad focus context. Thus, the tense ph…
Tonal polarity in Sylheti in the context of noun faithfulness
The Phonology of Contrastive Focus in Standard Colloquial Assamese
The present study investigates how Standard Colloquial Assamese (henceforth SCA) underlines contrastive focus (henceforth CF) phonologically, and what are the phonetic cues it employs in doing so. Assamese belongs to the Eastern Indo-Aryan language area of the Indo European language family (Goswami, 1982; Goswami & Tamuli, 2003) with SOV as the canonical word order. SCA variety is mostly spoken in the eastern districts of Assam: Tinsukia, Dibruga…
On the Phonetics and Phonology of Focus marking in Boro
It is discussed widely in the literature on tone and intonation that both these phenomenon make use of changes in the f0. It is often assumed that intonation in tone languages is only slightly more limited than it is in non-tonal ones (Yip 2002). This paper addresses the question of tone assignment in Boro and investigates how it operates as a function of focus. This paper studies both the phonetics and phonology of intonation in Boro and delinea…
Locality in exceptions and derived environments in vowel harmony
Assamese
The variety described here is representative of colloquial Assamese spoken in the eastern districts of Assam. Assam is a North-Eastern state of India, therefore Assamese and creoles of Assamese like Nagamese are spoken in the different North-Eastern states of Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and also the neighbouring country of Bhutan. Approximately 15 million people speak Assamese in India (seeEthnologue, Gordon 2005, which lists 15,374,0…
Assamese
The variety described here is representative of colloquial Assamese spoken in the eastern districts of Assam. Assam is a North-Eastern state of India, therefore Assamese and creoles of Assamese like Nagamese are spoken in the different North-Eastern states of Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and also the neighbouring country of Bhutan. Approximately 15 million people speak Assamese in India (seeEthnologue, Gordon 2005, which lists 15,374,0…
Locality in exceptions and derived environments in vowel harmony
Locality in exceptions and derived environments in vowel harmony
Assamese
The variety described here is representative of colloquial Assamese spoken in the eastern districts of Assam. Assam is a North-Eastern state of India, therefore Assamese and creoles of Assamese like Nagamese are spoken in the different North-Eastern states of Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and also the neighbouring country of Bhutan. Approximately 15 million people speak Assamese in India (seeEthnologue, Gordon 2005, which lists 15,374,0…
The Phonology of Contrastive Focus in Standard Colloquial Assamese
The present study investigates how Standard Colloquial Assamese (henceforth SCA) underlines contrastive focus (henceforth CF) phonologically, and what are the phonetic cues it employs in doing so. Assamese belongs to the Eastern Indo-Aryan language area of the Indo European language family (Goswami, 1982; Goswami & Tamuli, 2003) with SOV as the canonical word order. SCA variety is mostly spoken in the eastern districts of Assam: Tinsukia, Dibruga…
On the Phonetics and Phonology of Focus marking in Boro
It is discussed widely in the literature on tone and intonation that both these phenomenon make use of changes in the f0. It is often assumed that intonation in tone languages is only slightly more limited than it is in non-tonal ones (Yip 2002). This paper addresses the question of tone assignment in Boro and investigates how it operates as a function of focus. This paper studies both the phonetics and phonology of intonation in Boro and delinea…
Tonal polarity in Sylheti in the context of noun faithfulness
Pitch Range and Voice Quality in Dimasa Focus Intonation
This paper presents an analysis of Dimasa focus intonation. The acoustic analysis shows that narrow focus sentences undergo a jump in the pitch range irrespective of the underlying tonal value of the morpheme it attaches to. In addition to f0 expansion, the prosodic property of focus in Dimasa was found to have different (tense) phonation in morphologically marked narrow focus sentences when compared to the broad focus context. Thus, the tense ph…
Sound change and tonogenesis in Sylheti
Our study investigates the nature of tonogenesis in Sylheti, which was triggered by the merger of aspirated and unaspirated consonants in the language. We propose that the tonogenetic factors contributed by the four-way laryngeal contrast condition a three-way tonal contrast in Sylheti depending on the voicing and syllabic position of the sound. We take into consideration both monosyllabic and disyllabic sets of words and claim that Sylheti has t…
Linguistics (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Assamese (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Phonology (3 works) · Physics (3 works)