Relevance of Mahaprana in Speech Therapeutics

Abstract

Speech and language rehabilitation of the speech handicapped insists on simple language (language with less redundancy). It is found that people are unav/are of mahapranas which are presumably present in Kannada languages. To test this hypothesis the occurrence of mahapranas in dictation, identification, repetiion and discrimination of ability of a sample from the population was investigated. Spectrographic differences between natural words with mahapranas and a few contrasting natural words with alpapranas and a few contrasting artificial words with alpapranas (since the contrasting natural words were not present) were investigated