Vowel acoustics of assamese spoken in five geographical locations

Abstract

This dissertation studies the acoustic phonetic properties of vowels in Assamese as spoken in five geographical regions of Assam Tinsukia Jorhat Nagaon Nalbari and Barpeta The first part of the dissertation reports results of vowel production experiments conducted on the speakers from the five regions The results showed that vowel quality across the five varieties is not uniform Compared to the eight vowel system proposed for standard colloquial Assamese the speakers of the five areas pr...