A COMPARISON BETWEEN ENGLISH AND BANGLA VOWEL SYSTEMS
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https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2008.9.1.0829-AKeywords:
Vowel, articulation, length, speech mechanism, propertiesAbstract
The vowel is an important type of speech sound. Different languages have different sets of vowels due to their genetic and typological profile. Though the languages in the world share some common features, they are governed by language specific properties. This paper aims at finding out the phonetic and phonemic similarities and dissimilarities between the vowels in English and those in Bangla. The findings show that the vowels in English and Bangla share some common characteristics on the one hand; they are distinct by some unique features on the other hand.
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