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of thcm will be necessarily modified in a manner analogous to the Gcrman unilaut " [p. 12]. This refers to allophones or positional variants. The vowels are described only in terms of English sounds occurring in particular words. V() WI:L .ו.A אוו איו") .1.1 "a, mercly open the mouth, the produce an unmodified a, example America” [ồmerik8]. [p. 6] and “a before the finał n, ti, r, l, 1 or 1 of all but monosyllables takes very nearly the sound of e” [p. 12). According to these two statements, there arc two allophones for /a/. It is to be noted that C. J. Beschi in the 18th century has already observed this variation [1848 : 13] and T. P. Meenakshisundaram equates the sound to [e]. We are not in a position to guess the valueof the initial vowel in “America” in the English pronunciation in the 19th century. o His statement commonly a and o : before k are pronounced as if followed by y ; a kki ‘having made becomes a : ykki: pa: kkiyam “bliss’ becomes pa : ykkiyam, no : kki ‘having looked at’ is pronounced as if written no : ykki [p. 13] seems to give another allophonic value to a . [as well as to o :] ; but this is actually either the fronting of the velar consonant (the palatalised velar which is found in Kanyakumari dialect o ; Tamil) or the appearence of v due to hyperurbanisation. Hence it cannot be treated as another allophone of a . 1.2. FRONT vowels i and i : are identified correctly with the corresponding linglish sounds. “e and e : like the e and a in enable [ineib/] respectively” [p. 6]. The value of the initial vowel in “enable” is i as given by Daniel Jones. In Tamil, e and i are contrasting in thc initial position. Therefore, Pope might not have thought about [i] value for e. Probably the initial vowel in “criable” is e itself according to Pope. e : is equated with the 271

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