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Language and Thought (An insight through Hindi)

Language and Thought (An insight through Hindi). SE 367 Introduction to Cognitive Science Course Project Sumit Verma Mentor – Dr. Amitabha Mukerjee, Dr. Achla M Raina. The Basics. Whorfianism Differences can be due to :- Semantic/Structure View of the abstract world.

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Language and Thought (An insight through Hindi)

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  1. Language and Thought (An insight through Hindi) SE 367 Introduction to Cognitive Science Course Project Sumit Verma Mentor – Dr. Amitabha Mukerjee, Dr. Achla M Raina

  2. The Basics • Whorfianism • Differences can be due to :- • Semantic/Structure • View of the abstract world

  3. Part A – Structure of a Language • Background Hindi (SOV) v/s English (SVO) • Experiment • Procedure • Participants 8 Mess/Hall Workers (Hindi Speakers) and 21 X 2 Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT’s (English Speakers)

  4. Results American English Speakers Indian Hindi Speakers

  5. Part B – Grammatical Gender in Language • Background(Bihari Hindi v/s Standard UP/MP Hindi) • Bihari Hindi – Inanimate objects treated as Masculine • Standard Hindi – Gender of the object depends on a set of rules Examples:- Baarish ho rhahai and Baarish ho rhihai • Experiment • Procedure • Participants – 10 1st Year IITK students from Bihar + 10 IITK students from UP/MP/Delhi बारिश

  6. Results चाबी Bihari Hindi Speakers Standard Hindi Speakers (UP/MP)

  7. References • http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html • Linguistic Relativity – LeraBoroditsky (Galley – Article 00567) • The Linguistic Survey of India, vol. v. part ii. (1903) • Boroditsky, L., Schmidt, L., & Phillips, W. (2003). Sex, Syntax, and Semantics. In Gentner & Goldin-Meadow (Eds.,) Language in Mind: Advances in the study of Language and Cognition. • Semantic structure in improvised communication, (CogSci2011) MariekeSchouwstra, et. al (Anouschka van Leeuwen, Nicky Marien, Marianne Smit, Henri�ette de Swart) Thank You!!!!

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