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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
It is proposed here to offer some considerations on the representationof certain Malayalam 1 sounds. It is not the purpose of these notes to present a detailed laboratory account of the acoustic and physiological phenomena to be symbolized, but while characterizing these phenomena sufficiently for the reader to appreciate their general nature, rather to consider certain specific phonetic circumstances of their occurrence and the significance of these in the elaboration of anotational system.
page 437 note 1 Our informants were Travaneore Brahmins.
page 437 note 2 Appendix to Arden's Grammar of Common Tamil (new and revised edition), published by the Christian Literature Society of India, 1934.
page 438 note 1 The expression “ alternative phonetic terms ” is used by J. R. Firth in The Use and Distribution of Certain English Sounds (English Studies, 1935).
page 439 note 1 The term has been adopted from Professor H. Levy.
page 445 note 1 L. Vishwnātha Rāmaswāmi Aiyyar, A Brief Account of Malayalam Phonetic.