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Authentic Hindi/Urdu Audio-Video Materials for Classroom Use
Monday, January 31, 2011 at 01:37PM - Grant Details
- Amount: 2824.00
- Project Start Date: 01/14/02
- Status: Completed
- Project Type:
Campus Based - Languages: Hindi Urdu
- Project Level:
All - All Levels
- Project Skills:
Cultural Awareness
Listening
- Institutions Involved:
Cornell University
- Primary Contact:
Mehr Farooqi () - 116 Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca , New York 14853
Phone: (607) 255-8498
Hindi and Urdu represent distinct speech registers, but are taught as one language in American universities at the beginning level. Within Hindi and Urdu there are multiple speech registers. The goal of this project is to collect language data distinctive of various speech registers for use as authentic audio material in classroom. The present project is extremely important because it will for the first time collect spoken language samples of Hindi and Urdu speech registers, and make the language data available to all the national centers teaching Hindi/Urdu.