Malayalam verbal forms
By: a phonetic and phonological study supported by experimental findings, by V. R. Prabodhachandran Nayar.
Contributors: Presents the phonetic and phonological features of the Malaylam language, for the first time, from the stand point of Prosodic Analysis and is supported by experimental findings arraived at with the aid of tecniques of Direct Palatography, Kymography, Mingography and Spectrography.
Edition: First
Series: Dravidian Linguistic Association publication no. 4; Publication (Dravidian Linguistics Association) ;; no. 4.
Publisher: D[ravidian] L[inguistic] A[ssociation; distributors: National Research Pub. Co., Kazhakuttam]; D[ravidian] L[inguistic] A[ssociation; distributors: National Research Pub. Co., Kazhakuttam
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Trivandrum
Language: eng
Format: Book
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Malayalam language -- Verb.; Malayalam language -- Phonology.
First sentence: This monograph is an attempt to present the phonetic and phonological features of verbal forms in colloquial Malayalam,  for the first tiem, from the stand point of prosodic analysis.
Description: The Introduction gives the necessary geolinguistic data and oulines the general principle s of Prosodic Phonology. Chapters 1 and 2  provide the phonetic and grammatical frameworks required for the presentation of phonological statements undertaken in chapter 3 - 7.  Different types of phonetic and phonological syllable as well as prosodic and phonematic systems to be set up for the language are discussed in the third chapter. 

Native systems of phonological and grammatical units have been handled separately from marginal (i.e. borrowed) systems at every stage.

The generalized structures of stem, suffix and junction are examined in chapters 4, 5 and 6 respectively. This is followed in the seventh chapter by a full discussion of the phonological exponents of all grammatical categories relevant to the verbal piece of the language. Many percptionlly based statemnents included in earlier chapters are shown to be supported by insturmental evidence in the last chapter. 

There are three appendices: The first is a table of phonological formulae: the second a sample text with translation into English and the third an index of future forms derived from 1061 verbstems common in present day Malayalam.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [188]-190.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, Vowel and Consonant Articulations, Grammatical Outline, Prosodic and Phonematic Elements of Strucutre, Stem Structures, Suffix Structures, Junction Strucures, Phonological Exponents of Grammatical Categories, Experimental Findings; Lists of Maps, Palatograms, Kymograms, Mingograms and; title: and Spectrograms; Appendices; Bibliography; General Index