Analytical notes on noun phrases in Retelling of the Pear Story: Gopendro

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These are analytical notes on the noun phrases that appear in the retelling of the Pear Story narrated by O. Bimola Devi. Each noun phrase in the text was coded for shape (full, pronoun, or zero), semantic role, morphemes present, referent (boy, basket, farmer, etc.), information status (active, first mention, old, previous subject), and clause type (main, subordinate). This is one of seven retellings of the Pear Story coded in this way. The purpose of this study is to understand how these various factors affect the shape of noun phrases in Manipuri.

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1 p. : col.

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Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi Creation Date: Unknown.

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This dataset is part of the collection entitled: Manipur Language Resource and was provided by the UNT College of Information to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 24 times, with 5 in the last month. More information about this dataset can be viewed below.

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These are analytical notes on the noun phrases that appear in the retelling of the Pear Story narrated by O. Bimola Devi. Each noun phrase in the text was coded for shape (full, pronoun, or zero), semantic role, morphemes present, referent (boy, basket, farmer, etc.), information status (active, first mention, old, previous subject), and clause type (main, subordinate). This is one of seven retellings of the Pear Story coded in this way. The purpose of this study is to understand how these various factors affect the shape of noun phrases in Manipuri.

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1 p. : col.

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This study is reported in Chelliah, S. L. (2013). Predicting reference form: A Pear Story study of information status, thematic role and animacy in Meithei (Manipuri, Meiteiron). In Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation (pp. 223-236). John Benjamins.

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Manipur Language Resource

Material on the Manipuri language (ISO 639-3 mni), also known as Meithei, Meitei, Meitheiron, Meiteilon, or Meetei. Manipuri is used as a lingua franca in the state of Manipuri, India, and spoken by over 1.2 million people in Manipur and an estimated 3 million including second language speakers.

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Computational Resource on South Asian Languages

The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is a digital archive for source audio, video, and text on the minority languages of South Asia.

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Retelling of the Pear Story: Gopendro (Sound)

Retelling of the Pear Story: Gopendro

The Pear Story is a video stimulus commonly utilized in language documentation where speakers are shown the silent six minute video and then asked to describe it. In the video, a young boy steals a basket of pears from a farmer, then shares the stolen pears with three boys. This is a recording of Gopendro’s retelling of the Pear Story.

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Retelling of the Pear Story: Gopendro, ark:/67531/metadc1631597

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The Pear Story is a video stimulus commonly utilized in language documentation. Speakers are shown the silent six minute video and then asked to describe the events in the video. In the video, a young boy steals a basket of pears from a farmer, then shares the stolen pears with three boys. This is a transcription of Gopendro's retelling of the Pear Story in Manipuri. The transcription includes tone marking.

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Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Gopendro, ark:/67531/metadc1631633

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  • March 14, 2020, 5:08 p.m.

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  • Aug. 3, 2020, 11:39 p.m.

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Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi. Analytical notes on noun phrases in Retelling of the Pear Story: Gopendro, dataset, Date Unknown; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1631575/: accessed March 30, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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