Word order, intonation, and prosodic phrasing: Individual differences in the production and identification of narrow and wide focus in Urdu

F Jabeen - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

The effect of simultaneous exposure on the attention selection and integration of segments and lexical tones by Urdu-Cantonese bilingual speakers

J Ning, G Peng, Y Liu, Y Li - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the perceptual learning of lexical tones, an automatic and robust attention-to-phonology
system enables native tonal listeners to adapt to acoustically non-optimal speech, such as …

The Accentual Phrase in Urdu/Hindi: A prosodic unit at the interplay between rhythm and intonation

F Jabeen, E Delais-Roussarie - Proceedings of Speech Prosody, 2020 - hal.science
In Urdu/Hindi, the intonation of a sentence consists of a sequence of rising F0 contours (LH).
These LH contours are the default intonation pattern associated with a basic prosodic unit …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a phonological analysis of the rising contours in Urdu/Hindi

F Jabeen, E Delais-Roussarie - ICPHS satellite Workshop …, 2019 - academia.edu
In Urdu/Hindi, the intonation associated with any out-of-the-blue sentence consists of a
sequence of rising F0 contours (LH). These LH contours are claimed to be the default …

[PDF][PDF] Production and perception of Intonational Phrase boundaries in Urdu polar questions

F Jabeen - Speech Prosody 2022. Proceedings of the 11th …, 2022 - researchgate.net
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 …