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Retelling of the Pear Story: Gopendro

Description: 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.
Date: 1986~
Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Conversation about summer vacation

Description: This is a natural conversation between two girls at the Manipur University girl’s hostel. They are talking about what to bring back to the dorm after going home for vacation.
Date: 1988
Duration: 15 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of Hanuba Hanubi

Description: This is a retelling of Hanuba Hanubi Pungawari, a traditional narrative about an old man who is tricked by a monkey to plant paan after it is cooked. It is part of the modern Manipuri canon of folk tales.
Date: 1986~
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of My Friend the Oil Lamp

Description: This is a retelling of My Friend the Oil Lamp, a modern Manipuri traditional narrative, narrated by Radhe Sham Singh.
Date: 1986~
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of Kerkuhanjaba

Description: This is a retelling of Kerkuhanjaba, a traditional Manipuri story about a man as black as the kekru berry.
Date: 1986
Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of Mayba

Description: This is a retelling of a traditional narrative about a farmer who puts a spell on an unknown person who was stealing his vegetables.
Date: ~1986
Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of Tǝpta

Description: This is a retelling of the traditional narrative about Tǝpta, the boogeyman.
Date: 1986
Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Surmangol

Description: 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.
Date: September 14, 2007
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Thounaojam, Harimohon
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Bimola

Description: 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 O. Bimola Devi’s retelling of the Pear Story.
Date: 2010
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of a tone minimal pair

Description: This is a reading of a minimal pair demonstrating contrastive tone in Manipuri.
Date: unknown
Duration: 08 seconds
Partner: UNT College of Information

Reading of a tone minimal pair

Description: This is a reading of a minimal pair demonstrating contrastive tone in Manipuri.
Date: unknown
Duration: 06 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Pear Story: Brojen

Description: 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 Dr. H. Brojen’s retelling of the Pear Story.
Date: 2007~
Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Retelling of the Pear Story: Harimohon

Description: 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 Harimohon Thounaojam’s retelling of the Pear Story.
Date: 2009
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Traditional story about Sumphaai and Rangleng

Description: Recording of Sumphaai leh Raangleen story narrated by Grace Sankhil
Date: June 28, 2016
Duration: 5 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of tone words

Description: Recording of Tyler Utt and Shobhana Chelliah eliciting tone words in Lamkang (N-P) with Sumshot Khular.
Date: April 1, 2016
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of tone

Description: Recording of Shobhana Chelliah eliciting tone in Lamkang with Beshot Khullar.
Date: unknown
Duration: 13 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of tone words

Description: Recording of Tyler Utt and Shobhana Chelliah eliciting tone words in Lamkang (H-K) with Sumshot Khular.
Date: April 1, 2016
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of tone words

Description: Recording of Tyler Utt and Shobhana Chelliah eliciting tone words in Lamkang (L-M) with Sumshot Khular.
Date: April 1, 2016
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Utt, Tyler P.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Retelling of the Angel Story

Description: Recording of Rengpu Rex Khullar telling an Angel Story in Lamkang
Date: 2009~
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of tone minimal pairs with frame

Description: Recording of Melissa Robinson eliciting tone minimal pairs in a frame with Sumshot Khular.
Date: July 21, 2017
Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytic discussion of Escape of the Younger Brother

Description: Recording of analytical discussion of the story of Lamkang with Khungdon Donnu Sankhil and Rengpu Rex Khullar with Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: January 22, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 52 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of directionals and demonstratives

Description: Recording of Shobhana Chelliah eliciting directional and demonstratives. With Donnu Sankhil, Tholung Swamy Ksen, and Sumshot Khular at Thamlakhuren village.
Date: January 21, 2016
Duration: 13 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Elicitation of possessive constructions

Description: Melissa Robinson eliciting possessive constructions with Sumshot Khular.
Date: January 28, 2008
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Robinson, Melissa
Partner: UNT College of Information

Story of school boy in Lamkang by Pengpu Rex Khular

Description: Recording of a school boy story by Rengpu Rex Khullar narrated during the Lamkang Orthography workshop in Don Bosco Institute, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Date: January 26, 2016
Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
Creator: Basumatary, Prafulla
Partner: UNT College of Information
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