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Abstract

The present work is based on the Punjabi glottal fricative /h/. In this study, the researcher has compared the acoustic properties of one Punjabi phoneme /h/ in, both, Majhi and Lehndi dialects. The main aim of this study is to check the acoustic differences of glottal fricative in Majhi and Lehndi dialects. The data was gathered from 10 participants of Majhi and 10 of Lehndi dialect. The given words were containing /h/ initially, medially and finally and all of these words were used in the sentences in order to gain the natural data. Researcher asked the contributors to read the sentences loudly in their own Punjabi dialect for three times. The data was collected with the help of recorder in a very relax environment. With the help of Praat software, the recorded data was analysed. In order to get the mean about different values, further SPSS was used. The results of this study show that /h/ assimilates with its vowels progressively and regressively. This study also reveals that in Majhi dialect, people merge glottal fricative /h/ with the neighboring vowel in all positions while the speakers of Lehndi dialect merged the glottal fricative /h/ at words initial position only.