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

In their pioneering work on Urdu/Hindi polar kya, Bhatt and Dayal (2020) propose a new
class of question particles, polar question particles. As part of their analysis, the authors also …

This paper investigates the prosody of polar questions (PolQs) in comparison to alternative
questions (AltQs) in Urdu. Inspired by [1], who claim that Urdu/Hindi AltQs are disjunctions of …

1 Background Speakers structure the information that they convey in an utterance (Vallduví
& Engdahl, 1996). Based on their beliefs about which entities are most important for the …

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 …

This paper focuses on the prosodic realization of Urdu/Hindi kya 'what'in polar and wh-
constituent questions. The wh-word kya 'what'is polyfunctional in that it is used in wh …

This research investigates the nature of the LH intonation contour in Urdu/Hindi as pitch
accents vs. phrasal tones. Data from a production experiment and a speech corpus was …

This paper extends LFG's abilities to include information coming directly from the speech
signal (Bogel 2015, 2022; Butt & Biezma 2022). We do this by developing an analysis and …

Hindi and several other Indo-Aryan languages contain a discourse marker that has been
described as having a wide range of functions, including topic marking, intensive, emphatic …

Background: Prosody (rhyming words) is a connatural element of poetry, throughout its
reach, across thousands of languages in the world. Since medieval era, the Indic poetry …