Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Surmangol

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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 H. Surmangol Sharma's retelling of the Pear Story in Manipuri which includes tone marking.

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Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi 2007~.

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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 H. Surmangol Sharma's retelling of the Pear Story in Manipuri which includes tone marking.

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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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Retelling of the Pear Story: Surmangol

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 H. Surmangol Sharma’s retelling of the Pear Story.

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Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Surmangol

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 H. Surmangol Sharma's retelling of the Pear Story in Manipuri with a translations into English at the word level and sentence level.

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Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi. Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Surmangol, text, 2007~; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1631580/: accessed March 22, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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