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Papers by Anusree Sreenivasan

BSSS Journal of Education

In Odisha, English acts as a second or third language. Here English teaching is that much not ben... more In Odisha, English acts as a second or third language. Here English teaching is that much not beneficial for students in resolving regional accents,incorrect pronunciation, grammatical errors, speaking, etc. Western Odisha’s language is called Sambalpuri or Kosli. This area of Odisha is a multilingual area. Here people speak many mother tongues, like Sambalpuri, Odia, Hindi, Chhattisgarhi, etc. Students speak a different language at home and a different language at school. Most of the students are Sambalpuri speakers. At school, they learned English as a second/third language.This paper finds out the effect of multilingualism on English language learning in some selected high schools in Western Odisha. This paper is based on primary data collection. The data collection tool included a questionnaire, interview, and participant observation. Four high schools were selected for sample size. The participants of the study were 20 students (from each high school 5 students) 2 high schools ...

This study investigates pitch realization in Thadou, a Tibeto-Burman tonal language spoken in Nor... more This study investigates pitch realization in Thadou, a Tibeto-Burman tonal language spoken in NorthEast India. It is a clear case in many languages for pitch to drift down throughout an utterance, especially in declaratives. This paper examines the presence and nature of different pitch downtrending phenomena like the declination, downdrift and downstep in Thadou. The study reveals that declination, which is a post-lexical phonetic property in Thadou, affects more on Low tones and is highly curbed among High tones. The results also prove the presence of the phonological properties of downdrift and downstep in the language. These phonological properties are considered to be very rare among South Asian languages.

This paper focuses on the post-lexical tonal properties in Thadou and Mizo, the two Kuki Chin lan... more This paper focuses on the post-lexical tonal properties in Thadou and Mizo, the two Kuki Chin languages spoken in NorthEast India, and tries to typologize them based on the interaction of phonetic and phonological modules in the grammar of these languages. The paper investigates the different downtrending phenomenon like the declination, downdrift and downstep and accounts how the pitch is realized differently in each of these languages. The study reveals that the gradient implementation of certain phenomena in the phonetic component may be severely constrained by the nature of the lexical and post-lexical phonological component in a language. The results of this investigation thus reveal two varied types of post-lexical tones among the Kuki-Chin group of languages.

The present work aims to study the stress patterns in Marathi. The paper looks into the Dravidian... more The present work aims to study the stress patterns in Marathi. The paper looks into the Dravidian/ Indo-Aryan dichotomy in the language. Marathi, though an Indo-Aryan language, shares features of Dravidian languages because of its geographically unique positioning of the area in which it is spoken. This paper investigates the stress pattern of the words in Marathi-disyllabic and trisyllabic words, and investigates which language family it follows in this case. The acoustic correlates of stress in Marathi are also delineated in the present work. This paper attempts to give an Optimality Theoretic account of the stress patterns in Marathi.

BSSS Journal of Education

In Odisha, English acts as a second or third language. Here English teaching is that much not ben... more In Odisha, English acts as a second or third language. Here English teaching is that much not beneficial for students in resolving regional accents,incorrect pronunciation, grammatical errors, speaking, etc. Western Odisha’s language is called Sambalpuri or Kosli. This area of Odisha is a multilingual area. Here people speak many mother tongues, like Sambalpuri, Odia, Hindi, Chhattisgarhi, etc. Students speak a different language at home and a different language at school. Most of the students are Sambalpuri speakers. At school, they learned English as a second/third language.This paper finds out the effect of multilingualism on English language learning in some selected high schools in Western Odisha. This paper is based on primary data collection. The data collection tool included a questionnaire, interview, and participant observation. Four high schools were selected for sample size. The participants of the study were 20 students (from each high school 5 students) 2 high schools ...

This study investigates pitch realization in Thadou, a Tibeto-Burman tonal language spoken in Nor... more This study investigates pitch realization in Thadou, a Tibeto-Burman tonal language spoken in NorthEast India. It is a clear case in many languages for pitch to drift down throughout an utterance, especially in declaratives. This paper examines the presence and nature of different pitch downtrending phenomena like the declination, downdrift and downstep in Thadou. The study reveals that declination, which is a post-lexical phonetic property in Thadou, affects more on Low tones and is highly curbed among High tones. The results also prove the presence of the phonological properties of downdrift and downstep in the language. These phonological properties are considered to be very rare among South Asian languages.

This paper focuses on the post-lexical tonal properties in Thadou and Mizo, the two Kuki Chin lan... more This paper focuses on the post-lexical tonal properties in Thadou and Mizo, the two Kuki Chin languages spoken in NorthEast India, and tries to typologize them based on the interaction of phonetic and phonological modules in the grammar of these languages. The paper investigates the different downtrending phenomenon like the declination, downdrift and downstep and accounts how the pitch is realized differently in each of these languages. The study reveals that the gradient implementation of certain phenomena in the phonetic component may be severely constrained by the nature of the lexical and post-lexical phonological component in a language. The results of this investigation thus reveal two varied types of post-lexical tones among the Kuki-Chin group of languages.

The present work aims to study the stress patterns in Marathi. The paper looks into the Dravidian... more The present work aims to study the stress patterns in Marathi. The paper looks into the Dravidian/ Indo-Aryan dichotomy in the language. Marathi, though an Indo-Aryan language, shares features of Dravidian languages because of its geographically unique positioning of the area in which it is spoken. This paper investigates the stress pattern of the words in Marathi-disyllabic and trisyllabic words, and investigates which language family it follows in this case. The acoustic correlates of stress in Marathi are also delineated in the present work. This paper attempts to give an Optimality Theoretic account of the stress patterns in Marathi.