A Perceptual Study of Phonological Variations in Pakistani English

Abbasi, Abdul Malik; Channa, Mansoor Ahmed; Kakepoto, Innayatullah; Ali, Rida; Mehmood, Misbeh

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“…For Pakistani speakers, Urdu orthography is also another essential basis for intricacy in adopting proper English pronunciation since Urdu is known as a syllable-timed language while English is recognized as a stress-timed language. Thus, Urdu with an entirely different sounds, spellings, and syllabification system greatly impacts the learning of English phonetics and phonology and ultimately the communication of the learners (Abbasi et al, 2017;Muhammad & Qureshi, 2012). According to Farooq and Mahmood (2021), the tendency of non-native speaker to restructure the native English sounds is to suit their purpose is one of the major phonological aspects.…”

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Phonetics and Phonology: A Grey Area of Research in Pakistan

2023

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The present study aims to underscore those issues that render phonetics and phonology a less explored area of research in Pakistan. Traditionally, articulatory and auditory phonetics are focused for general understanding of English speech sounds in Pakistan, but acoustic phonetics that deals with understanding of pronunciation required for effective communication, is almost abandoned. This study is qualitative in nature and is based on empirical evidences from primary and secondary source research articles as well as personal observations. It has been found that experimental phonetics and phonology is generally not focused due to the paucity of subject specialists, unavailability of the trained staff, inadequacy of teaching techniques and methodologies, insufficiency of in-service courses,

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“…This study explored the research works carried out on the experimental phonetics of speech science of lexical stress patterns in Indo-Aryan and European languages through empirical evidence from the native speakers. Sindhi language which is less-studied language in terms of its phonetic and phonological aspects has also been explored through this review that Sindhi word stress in comparison to English, is a weakly quantity sensitive, in which the lexical stress is assigned on the so-called heavy syllable Abbasi, 2017;Abbasi et al (2017). Additionally, Abbasi (2015a) reports logistic mixed effects regression models on the perceptual judgments of stress assignments show that syllable (light vs. heavy) is a small but significant predictor of stress perception in Sindhi.…”

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Experimental Phonetics and Phonology in Indo-Aryan & European Languages

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Phonetics and phonology are very interesting areas of Linguistics, and are interrelated. They are based on the human speech system, speech perception, native speakers’ intuition, and vocalic and consonantal systems of languages spoken in this world. There are more than six thousand languages spoken in the world. Every language has its own phonemic inventory, sound system, and phonological and phonetic rules that differ from other languages; most even have distinct orthographic systems. While languages spoken in developed countries are well-studied, those spoken in underdeveloped countries are not. There is a great need to examine them using a scientific approach. These under-studied languages need to be documented scientifically using advanced technological instruments to bring objective results, and linguistics itself provides the scientific basis for the study of a language. Most research studies to date have also been carried out with reference to old or existing written literature in poetry and drama. In the current era of research, scholars are looking for objective scientific approaches, e.g., experimental and instrumental studies that include acoustic research on the sound systems of less privileged languages spoken locally in developing countries. In this context, Sindhi is an example of this phenomenon, and un-researched with reference to syllable structure and the exponents of lexical stress patterns.

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“…Urdu, a non-tonal member of the Indo-Aryan family, is Pakistan’s official language ( Akkharasena, 2018 ). There are lexical stress and sentential/phrasal intonation in Urdu, but no lexical tones ( Abbasi et al, 2017 ). A rising contour (LH) is prevalent among speakers as a phrase boundary in Urdu ( Jabeen, 2019 ).…”

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

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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 phonetic conflicts in daily communications. Previous tone research reveals that non-native listeners who do not linguistically employ lexical tones in their mother tongue may find it challenging to attend to the tonal dimension or integrate it with the segmental features. However, it is unknown whether the attentional interference initially caused by a maternal attentional system would continue influencing the non-optimal tone perception for simultaneous bilingual teenagers. From an endpoint in the age of language acquisition, we investigate whether the tone-specific attention mechanism developed by the Urdu-Cantonese simultaneous bilinguals is automatic enough to assist them in adapting to a phonetically-conflicting environment. Three groups of teenagers engaged in a four-condition ABX task: Urdu-Cantonese simultaneous bilinguals, Cantonese native listeners, and Urdu-speaking, late learners of Cantonese. The results showed that although the simultaneous bilinguals could phonologically process Cantonese tones in a Cantonese-like way under a conflict-free listening condition, they still failed in adapting to the phonetic conflicts, especially the segment-induced ones. It thus demonstrated that the simultaneous exposure and years of regular education in Hong Kong local schools still could not automatically guarantee simultaneous bilingual processing of Cantonese tones. In interpreting the findings, it hypothesized that, except for simultaneous exposure, the development of a tone-specific attention mechanism is also likely to be L1-inhibitory, tone experience-driven, and language-specific for simultaneous bilinguals.

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A Perceptual Study of Phonological Variations in Pakistani English

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Phonetics and Phonology: A Grey Area of Research in Pakistan

Phonetics and Phonology: A Grey Area of Research in Pakistan

Experimental Phonetics and Phonology in Indo-Aryan & European Languages

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

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