/p nj-p  /
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‘a water insect which has
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five legs’
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| /bnd-gobi/
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‘cabbage’
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/ml-tas/
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‘cassia-leaf’
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/dal-ci i/
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‘cinnamon’
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/mng-put/
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‘adopted child’
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/hml-dar/
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‘pregnent-woman’
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/sak-dar/
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‘relative’
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/dIg-tap/
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‘a type of fever’ |
| /bir-war/ |
‘Thursday’
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| /b€s-s/
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‘(I) shall sit’
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Word juncture is open transition preceding and following a word and is
marked by space between the words in the sentences.
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Phrase juncture is a pause for a longer duration than the word juncture
and it indicates the phrase boundary. This juncture resolves the
grammatical ambiguity and it contrasts with its absence. It may be marked
by comma(,).
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For example:
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/we,
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k r
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 /
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‘They are in the house’
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1
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2 |
3 |
1
3
2 |
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/we
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kr,
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/
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‘Those are houses’(Those
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| 1 |
2 |
3 |
1
3
2 |
houses are)
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Sentence juncture is a pause for a little longer time at the end and
beginning of the sentence and may be denoted by full stop/./.
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Each vowel constitutes the peak of the syllable. There are as many
syllables in a word as there are
vowels. The syllabic structure of Gojri can be represented by (C)V(C)
structure which marks that a syllable in this language can have consonants
as the onset or coda with a single vowel peak and a simple vowel by itself
can also constitute a syllable.
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We have noted in the phonemic distribution that the phonemes can occur
in various positions and various combinations and these form the part of
syllabic structure. Syllabic structure may be described as follows:
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(1)
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When in a word a consonant occurs in the inter-vocalic position then it
occurs as the onset of the following syllable and that consonant even may
not occur in the initial position. For example:
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/pya. o/
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‘cup’
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/bu. ţo/
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‘plant’
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/uo/
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‘bread’
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/aţo/
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‘flour’
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| /ja/ |
‘desolate’
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(2)
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When in a word two consonants C1C2 occur intervocalic ally than C1 the first consonant
occurs as the coda of the preceding syllable and C2
the second consonant occurs as the onset of the following syllable. The
geminates also behave like this. For example:
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/chIp.ro/
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‘apron’
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/pati/
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‘showy’
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/dbyo/
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‘pressed’
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/lm.mo/
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‘tall’
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/ss.su/
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‘mother-in-law’
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