Segmental study of Punjabi glottal fricative /H/: An acoustic analysis of glottal fricative in Majhi and Lehndi dialects of Punjabi

ABSTRACT: The present work is based on the Punjabi glottal fricative /h/. In this study, the researcher has compared the acoustic properties of one Punjabi phoneme /h/ in, both, Majhi and Lehndi dialects. The main aim of this study is to check the acoustic differences of glottal fricative in Majhi and Lehndi dialects. The data was gathered from 10 participants of Majhi and 10 of Lehndi dialect. The given words were containing /h/ initially, medially and finally and all of these words were used in the sentences in order to gain the natural data. Researcher asked the contributors to read the sentences loudly in their own Punjabi dialect for three times. The data was collected with the help of recorder in a very relax environment……………

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