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<p>This article is an acoustic analysis of the Maithili diphthongs. The article attempts to analyze topics such as the possible difference of the perceived diphthong from the perception of a pair of vowels. With the help of some attributes gathered from the results of a spectrographic study of the Maithili diphthongs, the article concludes that the phonetic features emerging from the consideration of diphthongs in a particular language are not necessarily sufficient or optimal to characterize the phenomenon in general. The most significant attributes of the Maithili diphthongs are two: (i) their onset frequency position and (ii) their second-format rate of change, which is always very stable in these diphthongs across changes in duration conditions. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-01-31)</p>
<p>The article discusses Maithili consonants. Consonants can be defined in terms of both phonetics and phonology. This article looks into all types of phonologically distinctive consonant sounds in a variety of the 'standard' dialect of Maithili, and puts forward a description, classification, and phonemic analysis of the consonants of this Maithili language. The articulation of chief Maithili consonants is presented in a full page figure. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-21)</p>
<p>The article presents a description, classification, and phonemic analysis of the vowels and diphthongs of a dialect of Maithili. It also includes brief discussions on the vowel clusters in Maithili. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-16)</p>
<p>The article is a study on the elision of the stops in Maithili. It discusses the morpho-phonology of the Maithili verbs. Among three areas which form a natural explanation - logical, psychological and phonetic -, here the concern is with the 'phonetic' plausibility of an analysis. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-03-04)</p>
<p>The article analyzes the main acoustic realizations of nasal vowels in Maithili. Maithili has phonologically distinctive nasal vowels. A list of test utterances containing the Maithili nasal vowels keeping the vowels both in isolation and in word contexts is included in a table. (Rajeev Ranjan Singh 2007-02-02)</p>