A Phonological and sociolinguistic study of variation in Deori / Shakuntala Mahanta, Prarthana Acharyya.
By: Mahanta, Shakuntala | Acharyya, Prarthana.
Description: 150p.; 24cm.DDC classification: RM.0423 Summary: The project is about phonological variation and the sociolinguistic variables, if any, which may contribute to the phonological variation among vowels that is seen in Deori. The main research goal of the project was to determine the phonemes in the language and phonological variation among vowels in the language (if any) mainly in Jorhat and Lakhimpur districts of Assam. For vowel experiment first two formants were extracted and the standard deviation test was done to confirm the validity of the duration values. Moreover we address the question of tones in Deori, a language where only the last vestiges of tone are known to have been present. A normalized F0 script was used to get the measurements such as duration, intensity, f0 mean, f0 vowels mid values were extracted to see the variation difference between the high and low tone. A sociolinguistic survey was also conducted to determine the optimal language domain and the language attitude of the Deori speakers in both the districts. The goal of the sociolinguistic interview was to get an overall picture of multilingualism and languafge attitudes among the Deori people.The project is about phonological variation and the sociolinguistic variables, if any, which may contribute to the phonological variation among vowels that is seen in Deori. The main research goal of the project was to determine the phonemes in the language and phonological variation among vowels in the language (if any) mainly in Jorhat and Lakhimpur districts of Assam. For vowel experiment first two formants were extracted and the standard deviation test was done to confirm the validity of the duration values. Moreover we address the question of tones in Deori, a language where only the last vestiges of tone are known to have been present. A normalized F0 script was used to get the measurements such as duration, intensity, f0 mean, f0 vowels mid values were extracted to see the variation difference between the high and low tone. A sociolinguistic survey was also conducted to determine the optimal language domain and the language attitude of the Deori speakers in both the districts. The goal of the sociolinguistic interview was to get an overall picture of multilingualism and languafge attitudes among the Deori people.
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