Sounds of PakE

At present, there are no detailed studies of the phonology of PakE. This paper therefore attempts to present a preliminary description of PakE phonology based on data collected in Karachi in the summer of 2002. Language samples presented and analyzed in this paper (unless otherwise stated) were collected from six educated Pakistanis between the ages of 22 and 37. Four of these participants were female and two were male. All of the participants were native speakers of Urdu. Language samples were first elicited using the Sheffield word-list (Foulkes and Docherty 1999) and then the ‘North Wind’ reading passage.