A Systematic Review of Hindi Prosody

TL;DR

This paper systematically reviews existing research on Hindi prosody, covering word and sentence levels, to serve as a comprehensive resource for future studies in language and speech processing.

Contribution

It provides a structured summary of prior work on Hindi prosody across various domains, highlighting key findings and gaps for future research.

Findings

Comprehensive overview of Hindi prosody research

Identification of key prosodic features at word and sentence levels

Guidance for future research directions in Hindi speech processing

Abstract

Prosody describes both form and function of a sentence using the suprasegmental features of speech. Prosody phenomena are explored in the domain of higher phonological constituents such as word, phonological phrase and intonational phrase. The study of prosody at the word level is called word prosody and above word level is called sentence prosody. Word Prosody describes stress pattern by comparing the prosodic features of its constituent syllables. Sentence Prosody involves the study on phrasing pattern and intonatonal pattern of a language. The aim of this study is to summarize the existing works on Hindi prosody carried out in different domain of language and speech processing. The review is presented in a systematic fashion so that it could be a useful resource for one who wants to build on the existing works.