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ABUJHMARIA GRAMMAR
G.V.Natarajan
2.8.3. Syllabic structure of Trisyllabic Words
       Trisyllabic words are formed by the combination of three syllables. Any one of the patterns V, VC, CV or CVC occurs as first syllable. The second syllable will be any one of the syllabic patterns VC, CV, CVC or CCV. The patterns VC, CV, CVC and CCV occur as final syllables.
V.CVC.CV: i.ru.ga: ‘cold’
CVC.CV.CV: kus.te.ri: ‘mangoose’
CVCC.CV:.CV: gun.ru:i: ‘quill’ (a bird)
CV.CV:.CV: ka.re:.la: ‘bitter gourd’
CV,CVC,CV: gu:ru.ga: ‘throat’
V.CV.VC. i.ru.wir ‘two persons’
VC.CV.CV:C en.je.la: ‘tattoo marks’
CV.CV.CV:C mi.ri.ya:l ‘red chilly’
2.9.0. Transition Features
       Transition features are juntures and clause terminals or clause-boundaries. The presentation of these features is purely tentative and is ignored in transcription except in the exaples where it becomes necessary to mark these for illustration.
2.9.1. Juncture
       In connected speech, sounds occurs in sequences of two or more which is often no easy matter to break-up neatly into their constituent fractions. Phenomena relating to the way in which sounds are joined together are summarized under the term ‘juncture’ (Bloch and Trager, 1942 : 35).
       Juncture is of two types. One type is close juncture in which each phoneme follows closely on the other without any interruption. This is denoted by spaces in between two utterances like in the examples /ad pilla:/ ‘that girl’. /wo:r pe:ka:l/ ‘that boy’. The other type is internal open juncture or prepausal juncture in which stream of speech ceases before a pause. In this juncture expressions or sentences involving the same sequences of phonemes are shown to differ in meaning by breaking the utternaces at some junctural points and is marked by /+/ such as, ad + pilla: nega: wa:t ‘that (some animate object) came near the girl’ : ad pilla: + nega: wa:t ‘that girl came near’. Since this junctural break serves to distinguish utterances it is a phoneme.
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