Վ Ա. ST SH VEIE Ve“le” ‘cost” VEEIE Ve“Ie” ‘work’ talE tale" “head’ 2.5. When these phonemes are submitted to scientific examination it could be noted that the lips are almost in the same position and the sides of the tongue are in contact with the teeth in their production. This difficulty could be easily get rid of if the given phonetic drill keeps the difference in raising the tongue towards the alveolar ridge. 2.6. Hindi speakers commonly substitute the high unrounded back vowel / Us" by the rounded back vowel / u !. It is due to the closeness of the articulatlion of / Us with / u /. | U / is produced by pronouncing / u / with spread lips as in the production of the high unrounded front vowel / is whereas / us is produced with lip rounding. Gg ST SH keTU keTu “spoil” uTU uTu ‘wear’ perUkkU perukku “broom' 2.7. In ST, / U / predominently occurs in the word final position though it also has medial occurence. But it is never in contrast with / u / in the final position. . CONՏC)NA NTՏ ST SH |p b td T D c j k g )p b t d T D с ј kg p h b h th d h Th D h ch jh k h g h 287
