Telugu has 2 sets of 5 vowel phonemes, i.e., sounds that make a difference in word meaning. Each set consists of one short and one long vowel. Vowel length distinguishes between otherwise identical words. In the table below, vowel length is indicated by amacronover the vowel. There are ...
Telugu has 2 sets of 5 vowel phonemes, i.e., sounds that make a difference in word meaning. Each set consists of one short and one long vowel. Vowel length distinguishes between otherwise identical words. In the table below, vowel length is indicated by amacronover the vowel. There are ...
Mysore Kannada has a large number of consonant phonemes, i.e., sounds that make a difference in word meaning. The consonant system is characterized by the fact that besides a Dravidian inventory, it includes a number of features typical of Indo-Aryan languages. Below are some of the typical...
The Stroop task (Stroop 1935) measures the interference of word meaning with the naming of the colour in which the words are written, as indicated by RT and Accuracy differences between colour-meaning incongruent and congruent conditions. It is a task of inhibitory control. We implemented a comp...
(exclusively), thus generalizing the meaning to any human group. If instead the meaning ‘human’ (or ‘people’) as represented in South Dravidian and in Telugu-Kurukh-Malto were taken as the original plural category in Proto-Dravidian, it would be difficult to think of the social and ...
Footnote 3 The universally accepted title of the work is Nyāya-kusumâñjali, although in the text itself, in the first and last verses, we find only two synonyms: Nyāya-prasūnâñjali (1.1d) and Nīti-kusumâñjali (5.20a), all meaning An offering of the flowers of logic. ...