I intend to work on the use of repair strategies (epenthesis, vowel deletion or expansion, consonant insertion or deletion, consonant lengthening at different positions, presence or absence of germination, etc.) in Pakistani English (PE). We intend to study this phenomenon acoustically with the help of software such as PRAAT and Wave surfer. For that purpose we will choose a list of words in isolation and the same words will be presented in carrier phrases. The words will be studied in controlled vocalic context i.e. only the front vowels will be studied in association with the consonant clusters. Having introduced the scope and dimension of my study, I seek answers to the following questions:<br>
1. Should I use a standard word list for word selection?<br>2. As compared to other consonant clusters, C3 occurs only in limited contexts in English, so is it practically possible to restrict the vocalic context to front vowels only?<br>
3. Repair strategies are numerous. What acoustic correlates shall I concentrate upon for various strategies?<br>4. Should the words be presented in meaningful context? I believe that if we use controlled vocalic context, nonsense phrases will be easier to formulate than meaningful sentences.<br>
5. How can PRAAT/Wave Surfer help me in the analysis?<br> <br>opinions and suggestions about the whole scheme of research are highly welcome.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
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