[Corpora-List] reapir strategies in pakistani english

[farhat jabeen]

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:
1.       Should I use a standard word list for word selection?
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?
3.       Repair strategies are numerous. What acoustic correlates shall I
concentrate upon for various strategies?
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.
5.       How can PRAAT/Wave Surfer help me in the analysis?

opinions and suggestions about the whole scheme of research are highly
welcome.

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*FARHAT*
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