I often hear speakers of Indian English place stress-accent on the word "the", with a pause before finishing a sentence with a noun. There's a raised pitch and stress on the word "the", which almost makes it sound like the speaker is asking the listener to finish the sentence for them.
I'm curious if there's any research on this phenomenon, but I can't find any papers since I'm not sure if there's a term to describe it.
For example: "Today, we measured the resistance of the... semiconductor device"
I'd be very curious to know if this emerged from one of the native languages of India, or somehow evolved naturally while English spread throughout India.