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What is Phonology ? ics : Study of sounds produced by the articulatory system (place and manner of articualtion) ? Phonology : Study of sound bine to form bigger units like syllables Ancient 5 x 5 Indian Classification of Consonants Group ?????????? Velar ?????????? Palatal ?????????? Alveolar ???? ?????? Dental ?????????? Labial Vowels (1/2) Vowels (2/2) Phonology: Syllables The concept of schwa ? First alphabet of IAL – {a} ? Unstressed and Toneless neutral vowel ? Sanskrit is ically perfect – no neutral vowels ? Hindi, Bengali etc. allow schwa to be neutral ? Some schwas deleted and some are not ? Schwa deletion – important issue for grapheme to phoneme conversion Schwa deletion contexts 1) Saphalya and Amantrana ( ??????, ????? ??) 2) Priya and Tritiya ( ?????, ?????) 3) Kavya and Ashva ( ?????, ????) 4) Badhai ( ????) Deleted only at the end of ??????? Not Deleted for rest of the examples A difficult problem in case of transliteration English Phonology ? Phonology – Study of the structure and systematic patterning of sounds in human language. – Ref