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0 New Research Trends in Language and Linguistics Chief Editor K. Muniisvaran Editors S. Franklin Thambi Jose N. Suppiah S. Malarvizhi P. Thanalachime Tamil Linguistics Association, Malaysia 1 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA Title of the Book: New Research Trends in Language and Linguistics Chief Editor: K. Muniisvaran Editors: S. Franklin Thambi Jose N. Suppiah S. Malarvizhi P. Thanalachime Publisher: Persatuan Linguistik Bahasa Tamil, Malaysia Language: English Edition: First Year of Publication: 2018 Size of the book: B5 Price: RM30 Subject: Language & Linguistics Website: talias.org Copyright holder: Tamil Linguistics Association, Malaysia ISBN: © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. 2 Foreword Society is now undergoing modernization in a number of domains and so the language, communication patterns, progress for development also in a number of formal domains. Linguists and (social) scientists have to identify areas in which they can collaborate, exchange their valuable contributions for the purpose of national and social development worldwide. Modern education and research undertaken in the recent years emphasize the use of new methods proposed in different fields of inquiry well supported by new methods introduced due to the advancement of modern technology. Indeed a revolution is gradually taking place in the research undertakings, especially those related to social and national relevance and upliftment. So, there is an urgent need for scholars and researchers to come closer and take up academic and research work of multi-disciplinary nature and achieve their goals set up. I consider this kind of attempt will definitely provide ample encouragement, support, methods and materials for future academic and research activities at the national and international level. A simple achievement with reference to Language Teaching – Learning Methods (LTLM) from the good old Grammar Translation Method to that of the current Communicative- Eclectic Method supported by CALL is worth mentioning in Applied Linguistic Research. So it is possible to achieve worthy contributions through effective research between Linguistics and Science as well in areas like Neuro-linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics, and Forensic Linguistics which all can directly benefit the society in solving some of the complex problems. First of all I have to congratulate the organisers for their initiative and involvement in this type of academic activity needed for the further development 3 of inter-disciplinary research activities, particularly between Linguistics and (social) sciences. I very much appreciate the efforts of Tamil Linguistics Association (Malaysia) and CAS in Linguistics, Annamalai University, TN (India) for their venture/adventure in organizing a conference entitled ‘International Conference on Language, Linguistics & Social Sciences 2018’ and published the papers in this volume. I wish them all success. Dr. K. Karunakaran Former Vice-Chancellor, Tamil University, Tanjore. 4 Chief Editor’s Note The researches on language and linguistics always meets the recent trends according to the global movement. The western countries exploring the area of linguistics with many cross discipline areas such as clinical linguistics, computational linguistics, mathematical linguistics, forensic linguistics, etc. We, the eastern countries always trying to catch up with them. However, I would say we have our own style and areas to be explored. This book consists 18 chapters that covers multiple topics in using various research methods. The discussions and findings of these chapters are surely will help to lift the knowledge for the readers and be a guideline for further researches on the relevant topics. This book is as a part of our effort to increase the research activities particularly in language and linguistics field with new research trends. This book is an outcome of a conference entitled ‘International Conference on Language, Linguistics and Social Sciences 2018’ jointly organized by Tamil Linguistics Association, Malaysia and CAS in Linguistics, Annamalai University, India at the same university. I, the chief editor for this volume would like to express my gratitude to all good souls who helped me to materialize this book. Thank you. Dr. K. Muniisvaran Chief Editor 5 Content Foreword 3 Chief Editor’s Note 5 Chapter 1 10 Phonetic Variation In Ve:TTakka:Da Irula Dialects R. Elakkiya Chapter 2 21 Socio-Phonology of Spoken Persian in Afghanistan A. Gholam Mohammad Payman Chapter 3 39 A Comparative Study of some of the Phonological features of Komrem Group K. Tarun Kom & Curiously Bareh Chapter 4 50 Typology of Word Formation in Malayalam S.N. Mohan Raj & S. Rajendran Chapter 5 64 Loan Words and Borrowing in Sora Satapathy Ankita 6 Chapter 6 72 Kinship Terms of Paniya in Nilgiri District of Tamilnadu M. Vijayarul & P. Vijaya Chapter 7 80 Lexical Inferencing of Intermediate Odia ESL Learners: Strategies and Knowledge Sources Employed Sasmita Kanungo Chapter 8 95 The Role of Pragmatics in kalithokai A. Indira priyadharshini Chapter 9 105 A Study on the Discussion of the Theories based on the Origin and Development of Malayalam Language Anju B Chapter 10 114 Language shift and Maintenance among Marathi Community in Kasaragod Rajitha K V Chapter 11 124 Language Change and Transmission of Knowledge M. Prasad Naik 7 Chapter 12 133 Embracing What the Heart Longs for - A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Jessica Powers’ Poetry Armila Antony C. Chapter 13 140 Working on Gender and Discourse: Some Challenges Rasheeda P V Chapter 14 147 Narrative Language in Children with Intellectual Disability R. Indhumathi & P. Sankarganesh Chapter 15 152 Paralinguistic and Conversational Deficit in Arabic- Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) Q. Fadhl & V. Thiruvalluvan Chapter 16 172 Language Socialization of Urban and Rural Children In Dindigul District P. Mangaiyarkarasi Chapter 17 187 Government and Binding Theory for Tamil K. Umaraj 8 Chapter 18 192 The Role of English in India: A Theoretical Perspective A. Munian 9 Chapter 1 Phonetic Variation In Ve:TTakka:Da Irula Dialects R. Elakkiya Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, 641046 Tamil Nadu. [email protected] ABSTRACT Every language has their own linguistic features which lead researchers to find out their Proto language as well as language family. Phonetic feature is one of them; phonetic change is common in all languages, it is also one of the reasons of a language to become various dialects. This paper tried to expose the some phonetic variations of the Ve:TTakka:Da Irula dialects and their resemblances of Tamil Dialect. Phonetics is the initial headland of the language; when it is placed into inquiry, the sound change regulation can be disclosed to the world. It will be helpful to apply with other language sound change system. It can be elucidated whether a language is dialect or not. Keywords: Ve:TTakka:Da Irula, Dialect Comparison, Tamil Dialect Reflection, Phonetic Variation. 10 Introduction It is the reality that indigenous language groups always migrate from one place to another place due to some unresisting situation. So the particular languages can be affected or influenced by the mainstream languages. Dialects also reflected by the social behaviors and contact. Dialect is a variety of a language that signals where a person comes from. The notion is usually interrupted geographically (regional dialect), but it also has some application in relation to a person’s social background (class dialect) or occupation dialect. The word dialect comes from the Ancient Greek dialeckos (David Crystal, Pavle Ivic). And also the Indigenous languages possess the peculiar features of Proto language from which the indigenous languages were derived. This paper examines the phonetic changes that occurs between the dialects of ve:TTakka:Da Irula language; Mangarai, in Coimbatore district of Tamilnadu state and Nattakkalloor, border of Attapadi zone in Kerala are taken as limitation for this research. Common vocabularies are selected from their usage and simply approached with sound change rules; elision, replacement and lengthening system that are available in Ve:TTakka:Da Irula dialects and Elision. This is a sound change rule, Elision or Contraction. According to this rule there is an omission of a vowel, consonant, word, syllable or phrase such as kuṟṟiyalikaram, kuṟṟiyalukaram, makarakkuṟukkam etc1. Both Irulas are sharing this kind of sound change system. This is happening in middle position; cluster also appears there as in Tamil dialects. It will be represented in following table 1. 11 Mangarai Nattakkalloor No ve:TTkka:Da Ve:TTakka:Da Tamil Meaning Irula Irula 1 [pḍεΙ] [pεḍεΙ] /puTai/ Cleansing dust from rice 2 [pᴐlεΙ] [pləΙ] /piḻai/ To Survive 3 [sεjvεnε] [sεvvəne:] /ceivinai/ Kind of black magic 4 [sa:rja:] [sa:rija:] /ca:ra:yam/ Alcohol 5 [kəljəna:] [kεlija:na:] /kalya:nam/ Marriage 6 [kεḍεΙgu:lI] [kεḍεgu:li] /kaTai ko:l/ Stick to drive boat Table 1: Elision of vowel Deletion of consonants While seeing the sound change of these two dialects of ve:TTakka:Da Irulas, it is explaining two different rules in Phonetic level. One is the deletion of the final consonant, it is called elision. Another one is the nasalization of the final consonant, it