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    “Do You See and Hear More? A Study on Telugu Perception Verbs”
    ( 2022-01-01) Krishna, P. Phani ; Arulmozi, S. ; Mishra, Ramesh Kumar
    Verbs of perception describe the actual perception of some entity and it is emphasized by earlier researchers that lexicon in languages is conceptually-oriented and is necessary for our daily communicative needs. In this paper, we demonstrate and explain, which among the perception verbs have the higher frequencies of all the five senses (vision, hear, smell, taste, touch) by using a Telugu corpus and self-rating task. This study shows a greater lexical differentiation when compared to studies done using English corpus and other languages. Based on our analysis–vision, followed by hear are the most commonly used verbs in daily communicative needs by the Telugu speakers as compared to touch, taste, and smell; The inconsistency in usage of other senses are not identical to the vision and hear in other studies, it may be due to sampling and methodological variations in the corpus of different language, but in common these two senses play a key role in perception verbs. The study of Telugu perception verbs may give more interesting facts and insights into the cognitive linguistics paradigm.
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    History, features, and typology of language corpora
    ( 2018-03-05) Dash, Niladri Sekhar ; Arulmozi, S.
    This book discusses key issues of corpus linguistics like the definition of the corpus, primary features of a corpus, and utilization and limitations of corpora. It presents a unique classification scheme of language corpora to show how they can be studied from the perspective of genre, nature, text type, purpose, and application. A reference to parallel translation corpus is mandatory in the discussion of corpus generation, which the authors thoroughly address here, with a focus on Indian language corpora and English. Web-text corpus, a new development in corpus linguistics, is also discussed with elaborate reference to Indian web text corpora. The book also presents a short history of corpus generation and provides scenarios before and after the advent of computer-generated digital corpora. This book has several important features: it discusses many technical issues of the field in a lucid manner; contains extensive new diagrams and charts for easy comprehension; and presents discussions in simplified English to cater to the needs of non-native English readers. This is an important resource authored by academics who have many years of experience teaching and researching corpus linguistics. Its focus on Indian languages and on English corpora makes it applicable to students of graduate and postgraduate courses in applied linguistics, computational linguistics and language processing in South Asia and across countries where English is spoken as a first or second language.
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    On polysemy in Tamil and other Indian languages
    ( 2010-01-01) Mohanty, Panchanan ; Arulmozi, S.
    Scholars (e.g. Burrow 1968:300) have expressed surprise regarding the very small number of borrowed words from Sanskrit in Tamil as opposed to the other three major literary Dravidian languages, i.e. Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. But there is no detailed discussion as to why it has happened in Tamil when other Dravidian languages possess a lot of Sanskrit borrowings. We want to argue here that the small number of consonant letters in Tamil alphabet is responsible for it. And its natural outcome is that other Dravidian languages have borrowed from Sanskrit whenever necessary whereas Tamil has managed its situation by developing polysemy. In other words, Tamil is more polysemous compared to its sister languages. In fact, we want to propose that if a language has a smaller alphabet than others, it has to be more polysemous than the latter. In this paper, we will demonstrate it with examples from Tamil vis-a-vis their cognates in Telugu.
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    Sensory Perception in Blind Bilinguals and Monolinguals
    ( 2020-08-01) Phani Krishna, P. ; Arulmozi, S. ; Shiva Ram, Male ; Mishra, Ramesh Kumar
    In blinds, the tactile sensations play a crucial role for various daily activities, in the all sense modalities tactile sensation is considered as major sense of perception. This study is conducted to investigate the tactile sensations in relation to Bilingual and Monolingual blinds using experimental comparative study design, divided into two groups. Self-paced reading task of a Braille scripted passage was used as a stimulus. Findings of this study reported that blind bilingual participants differ in the processing of language, the tactile sensations in the Bilinguals are better as compared to monolinguals.
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    Speech Perception Performance of Native Speakers of Marathi: Effect of Filtered Speech Stimulus and Degree of Hearing Impairment
    ( 2022-02-01) Rathna Kumar, S. B. ; Dash, Niharika ; Bapuji, Mendem ; Arulmozi, S. ; Chandanshive, Chandrahas
    The study investigated the effect of filtered speech stimulus on speech perception performance of native speakers of Marathi as a function of degree of hearing impairment. Speech identification score (SIS) testing was performed to measure speech perception on three groups (Group I, Group II, and Group III consisted of participants with moderate, moderately-severe, and severe sensorineural hearing impairment respectively). Speech stimuli comprised eight word-lists with each list consisting of 25 words in Marathi. The first seven word-lists (first to seven) were filtered at 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, 1500 Hz, 2000 Hz, 2500 Hz, 3000 Hz, and 3500 Hz cut-off frequencies, respectively, while word list 8 was left unfiltered. Although, the SIS improved with increase in cut-off frequency, the improvement in SIS with increase in cut-off frequency of speech stimulus was noticed up to 3000 Hz, 2500 Hz, and 2000 Hz for participants of Group I, Group II, and Group III, respectively. In addition, the improvement in speech perception performance did not correspond to what would be anticipated with an increase in the cut-off frequency of speech stimulus for participants of Group II and Group III compared to participants of Group I. Although, there was a significant reduction in SIS as a function of the degree of hearing impairment for speech stimulus filtered at 1500 Hz, 2000 Hz, 2500 Hz, and 3000 Hz cut-off frequencies, there was no significant effect of degree of hearing impairment on SIS for speech stimulus filtered at 500 Hz and 1000 Hz cut-off frequencies.
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    Telugu WordNet
    ( 2010-01-01) Arulmozi, S.
    This paper describes an attempt to develop Telugu WordNet, particularly construction of synsets in Telugu language along the lines of Hindi synsets using the expansion approach. Based on the Hindi WordNet synsets, we assign Telugu synsets manually using the Offline Tool Interface. We share the challenges faced in the construction of core synsets from Hindi into Telugu language. A brief account on Telugu language and its notable features are also provided.