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It contains six traditional PhD thesis chapters providing background information, as well as three research articles presenting analyses. Data was sourced from the Marwari language, spoken in Rajasthan, India, as a testbed, but its applicability may extend to other languages.

Speech was recorded from forty-five female Marwari monolingual speakers representing three caste dialects (fifteen per variety). Three speech elicitation techniques were used: reading from a wordlist, telling stories around picture stimuli, and engaging in conversation. The research contributes to existing manual systems by providing a semi-supervised feature-based system that may supplement existing ‘manual’ and semi-supervised tools.