Phonetics and phonology of sylheti tonogenesis

Abstract

The physical constraints of articulatory and or auditory speech mechanism are vital to sound change in human language Hombert 1977 Ohala 1974 1993 These constraints often affect the way speech sounds are produced and perceived by listeners A speaker 8482 s pronunciation may get distorted and may not be perceived as intended thus creating space for inclusion and or reduction of the phoneme inventory Several factors causing sound change over generations are found in all human speakers One of