Speakers use corrective focus as an explicit way to correct misunderstandings in
communication. We investigate whether immersive contact with a rhythmically different …

This study investigates speaker based variation in the use of word order and intonation to
mark narrow and wide focus in Urdu. The identification of focus type and position, as well as …

In languages with flexible word order, multiple wh-questions allow us to investigate the
relationship between word order and prosodic phrasing. This study analyzes the prosodic …

This paper studies the prosody of case clitics in Urdu, for which various different claims exist
in the literature. We conducted a production experiment and controlled for effects potentially …

In this dissertation, I explore the different surface strategies that languages rely on to
compose alternative question (AltQ) meaning. An example of an AltQ, together with its polar …

Based on data collected from speakers of Gujarati, we investigate whether exhaustivity and
narrow focus have same eect on the syntactic position of an object and on sentence …

Urdu polar questions are reported to be produced with low or high IP boundary tones.
However, existing studies do not clarify the source of this variation. In this research, I report a …