Perception of syllables pitch contour in Sindhi language

Sindhi is an open syllable language cv; most of its words have vocalic ending and the occurrence of irregular consonants. We had digitally investigated eight classes of syllables reported by Jatoi. The object of this paper is to analyze the actual syllable patterns occur in Sindhi and the frequency of syllable patterns. The syllables consist on Vmacr, CV, CVmacr, CVmacr V, CCVmacr CCVmacr C, CVmacr C and CVCC. Phonetically, all types of syllables end with short or long vowels. The purpose of the research is to investigate the f0 peak of syllable classes in terms of the different position of short and long vowels for the appropriate syllabification in a Sindhi word. The clear differences of rise size were found due to the placement of both types of vowels in a syllable of Sindhi words. The achieved results of this work are fundament of computational Sindhi speech processing.