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This study looked into the different onset patterns of the syllables allowed in Standard Colloqui... more This study looked into the different onset patterns of the syllables allowed in Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB), and Jessore Bangla (JB), two of the major dialects of Bangla. Using the framework of Optimality Theory (OT) it captured how the same loan words with complex onsets are accommodated both in SCB and JB. The study found that SCB adopted the loan words with complex onsets as they are while JB adapted them using some repairs. SCB allows both simple and complex onsets but JB allows only simple onsets; complex onset is highly marked here. Two repair strategies, internal and external vowel epenthesis were found to be used in JB to simplify the complex onsets of the loan words. Hence, this study deployed relevant OT constraints and presented their rankings to explain the internal and external epenthesis contexts and the quality of the epenthetic vowel.
This study looked into the different onset patterns of the syllables allowed in Standard Colloqui... more This study looked into the different onset patterns of the syllables allowed in Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB), and Jessore Bangla (JB), two of the major dialects of Bangla. Using the framework of Optimality Theory (OT) it captured how the same loan words with complex onsets are accommodated both in SCB and JB. The study found that SCB adopted the loan words with complex onsets as they are while JB adapted them using some repairs. SCB allows both simple and complex onsets but JB allows only simple onsets; complex onset is highly marked here. Two repair strategies, internal and external vowel epenthesis were found to be used in JB to simplify the complex onsets of the loan words. Hence, this study deployed relevant OT constraints and presented their rankings to explain the internal and external epenthesis contexts and the quality of the epenthetic vowel.