Bengali Intonation Revisited: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis in which FOCUS Stress Prominence Drives FOCUS Phrasing In this paper, I want to investigate the consequences of an idea about focus prosody that was first put forward by lackendoff 1972, namely the hypothesis that the focusphonology inter...
Conservation of Juvenile Hilsa (Jatka) in Bangladesh: Need to Address the Livelihood of Fishers --Hilsa Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822) is a major food fish in Bangla- desh and is hailed in Bengali as macher raja ilish, meaning "hilsa shad--the king of fish." World catch of hilsa is...
The years 1903–08 mark the era of Swadeshi in Bengal (literally meaning "home-made" or indigenous), a period in Indian nationalism when the concerted demand for self-government and the boycott of British goods seemed for a while to rock the very foundations of imperial administration in ...
“You Go ‘Cause You Have to”: The Bridal Shower as a Ritual of Obligation Getting married is one of the most celebrated and revered transitions in a woman's life. Therefore, many rituals and events exist to prepare a woman to become a wife. The bridal shower is one of those that ...