Abstract
This chapter is a short thematic introduction to the papers that appear in this special volume on the phonetics and phonology of a selective but representative set of languages from the South Asian sprachbund. The volume consists of five papers that engage with a broad set of topics, namely, acoustics of Kalasha affricates, perception of breathiness in Gujarati, syllable structure of Kuki-Chin, syllable structure and incipient vowels in Lamkang, and vowel harmony in Assamese. These papers, we hope, are representative in terms of the choice of theoretical frameworks and methodologies employed in addressing the various linguistic phenomena.
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the anonymous reviewers of the papers published here. They were requested to complete their reviews within a very short stipulated amount of time, and without their cooperation, publishing this volume could not have been accomplished.
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