Indian English has been the subject of study since colonial times, with several works written
over the years describing its linguistic features. Considerable attention has been paid to the …

This chapter evaluates the available evidence on the question of whether Outer Circle
varieties of English tend to be more syllable-timed than Inner Circle varieties. Although a …

Pronunciation plays a crucial role in learning English as an international language, yet often
remains marginalised by educators due to a lack of required phonetic and phonological …

A speaker's regional dialect is a rich source of information about that person. Two studies
examined five-to six-year-old children's perception of regional dialect: Can they perceive …

Summary The sounds of Indian English are distinct and recognizable to outsiders, while
insiders perceive variations in how English has developed in this large diverse population …

This study explored whether the sound structure of Indian English (IE) varies with the
divergent native languages of its speakers or whether it is similar regardless of speakers' …

This paper presents the results of an acoustic analysis of English diphthongs produced by
three L1 speakers of Hindi and four L1 speakers of Punjabi. Formant trajectories of rising …

Very little has been said about the intonation system of Hindi and Indian English. This study
aims to contribute to the field of intonation studies by bridging the gaps in the understanding …

Most research on speech rhythm has focussed on duration. For example,[1] suggested the
normalised pairwise variability index for vocalic intervals (nPVI-V) in order to measure the …

We consider heterogeneity versus homogeneity in a range of temporal and f0-related
measures associated with prominence marking and the percept of rhythm, in IndE for …