We distinguish between two types of interrogative particles,(regular) question particles and
polar question particles. The first, canonically exemplified by Japanese-ka, occurs in all …

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 reports on part of a larger investigation of polar questions in Urdu/Hindi. Our
overall study is concerned with how the interfaces between prosody, syntax, and …

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 has two inter-related foci, one specific to Hindi-Urdu2 and the other more
general. Its empirical focus is a particular lexical item in Hindi-Urdu that we refer to as polar …