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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Hindi"”.
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Prosodically Induced Acoustic Variation in English, Korean, and Hindi
… production experiments on English, Korean and Hindi that examine factors governing acoustic variation. The focus of this research is the patterns of variation in the acoustic expression of laryngeal phonological contrasts among stop consonants and supralaryngeal contrasts among vowels, and the …
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Abrogated identity : Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema 1947-2000
… How do the representations of Muslims in Hindi Popular Cinema deny the community identification with the nation. It establishes Hindi cinema as the 'de facto' national cinema and explores the nature of identity and communal relations between the two major Indian religious communities, …
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An Integrated Analysis of the Hindi Tense and Aspect System
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:12:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7624094.pdf: 9680329 bytes, checksum: 18e3602dfbe179143944a6c20d51edc8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Intonation in Indian English and Hindi late and simultaneous bilinguals
… has been said about the intonation system of Hindi and Indian English. This study aims to contribute to the field of intonation studies by bridging the gaps in the understanding of intonation patterns of Hindi and Indian English. By analyzing the speech of both late and simultaneous …
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Hindi filmigit: On the history of commercial Indian popular music
This study traces the musical development of the Hindi film song from the beginning of Indian sound film in 1931 to the present day, with an emphasis on the years 1931-55. Based largely on fieldwork carried out within the Bombay film industry in 1982-83, this dissertation addresses questions that …
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Binding as an interface condition : an investigation of Hindi scrambling
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993.
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Strictly Bollywood? : story, camera and movement in Hindi film dance
… part of popular Indian cinema. Over the years, Hindi film dance has evolved from a cinematically simplistic, filmed documentation of performance traditions, to a recognized and increasingly respected dance category emulated in staged performances in India and abroad. Despite their significance, …
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Agreement in the context of coordination: Hindi as a case study
… Using the data from head final languages (mainly Hindi), I have shown that the structure of coordination is not involved in the Closest Conjunct Agreement constructions always. Based on various empirical facts, such as CCA asymmetry based on the word order as in Arabic, CCA asymmetry based on the …
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A history of the Bhojpuri (or "Hindi") language in South Africa
… (more usually, but incorrectly, referred to as "Hindi"). I attempt to trace the origins of the South African variety of this language by examining the places of origin of the original indentured migrants who brought it to South Africa. A complex sociolinguistic picture emerges, since these …
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Lifting the Veil on Hindi Film Song Sequences: An Approach to Analysis
… seeks to augment previous scholarly research on Hindi film song through the presentation of a multivalent approach to thoroughly understanding and interpreting Hindi film song sequences. In a case study of the song sequence “Pardā Haı̃ Pardā” ("There Is a Veil,"? from Manmohan Desai's 1977 film …
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We are like this only : Desis and Hindi films in the Diaspora
… tools that might help us understand how Hindi films are watched in the Indian- American diaspora and what viewers, situated in particular historical, socio-political contexts, bring to bear upon their engagement with these films. In spite of the sheer number of Hindi films released each …
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The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi
… their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. First, it outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within that structure. It is argued that sentential negative in Hindi negation marker heads its own …
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Development of a Hindi Version of Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V)
… purpose of the current study was to develop a Hindi version of the Consensus of Auditory Perceptual Evaluation of Voice (CAPE-V), a tool for speech language pathologists to assess voice quality and degree of hoarseness. The Hindi version of the CAPE-V will be vital in voice assessments …
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An Exploration of Comprehension Differences in Time Compressed Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, and English Speech
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:56:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212298.pdf: 5184310 bytes, checksum: 14c7fddef55362cf57f6bab16f9d4b33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Understanding Wikipedia Practices Through Hindi, Urdu, and English Takes on an Evolving Regional Conflict
… degree Wikipedia articles in three languages — Hindi, Urdu, and English — achieve Wikipedia's mission of making neutrally-presented, reliable information on a polarizing, controversial topic available to people around the globe. We chose the topic of the recent revocation of Article 370 of the …
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Four -Way Stop Contrasts in Hindi: An Acoustic Study of Voicing, Fundamental Frequency and Spectral Tilt
… analyses, I argue that the stop distinctions in Hindi are best understood as a cumulative effect of several acoustic cues, in contradistinction to previous accounts, including the standard view.
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A quantitative and qualitative analysis of competing motivations interacting in the placement of finite relative clauses in Hindi
Hindi has an unmarked SOV order (verb-final language), but constituents can be arranged in different orderings. While the focus of earlier studies has been on the rich set of word order variations; alternations at the clausal level have not received much attention (see Manetta 2012). Hindi finite …
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The Effect of Pronoun Type on First and Second Language Perceptual Strategies in Hindi (India, Psycholinguistics, Acquisition, Processing, Reading)
… patterns of full and zero pronouns in written Hindi discourse, and the processing strategies employed by L1 and L2 Hindi speakers in assigning anaphoric reference.
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Indian-American self-representation : transmission of culture through the entertainment medium of film
This study examined Hindi film representations of people of Indian origin residing outside India, Hollywood film representations of people of Indian ethnicity in America, as well as self-representation in Indian-American films. The researcher used the quantitative methodology of content analysis to …
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