Language and Thought
(An insight through Hindi)
SE 367 Introduction to Cognitive Science Course Project
Sumit VermaMentor – Dr. Amitabha Mukerjee, Dr. Achla M Raina
BackgroundHindi (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)
Part A – Structure of a 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 rha hai and Baarish ho rhi hai
Experiment Procedure
Participants – 10 1st Year IITK students from Bihar +
10 IITK students from UP/MP/Delhi
Part B – Grammatical Gender in Language
बा�रि�श
http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html Linguistic Relativity – Lera Boroditsky (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) Marieke Schouwstra, et. al (Anouschka van Leeuwen, Nicky Marien,
Marianne Smit, Henri ette de Swart)�•
References
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