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Volume 13:7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Use of Markers Observed in the Spoken Language Lexical Corpora of Children in Kannada Language

B. A. Mahalakshmi Prasad
K. S. Prema, Ph.D.

Abstract

Research in the area of child language thrives on the availability of naturalistic language data. However, Indian endeavours are meagre and confined to the language data acquired by the Speech - Language Pathologists which is limited to the purview of their study. The present study is part of a post-doctoral work carried out at All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH).

The study established a spoken language lexical corpus of children between the ages of 6 and 8 in Kannada language. The language data of 240 children, living in the city of Mysore was collected through description of standardised pictures, story narration and narration of daily activities of the child. The present paper looks into the use of markers by children while highlighting the need to encourage further research in the field of child language.

Keywords: spoken language corpus, language acquisition, markers.

Introduction

Endeavour towards establishing a corpora in India is meagre and has been restricted to the pioneering work in the 1980’s that saw the creation of the Kolhapur Corpus of Indian English (KCIE) by Shastri. It was created based on the guidelines of the Brown Corpus. In the 1990s the Department of Electronics, Government of India initiated the scheme of Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) to establish electronic corpora in Indian languages which led to a compilation of around three million words from different disciplines representing English, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Guajarati, Oriya, Bangla, Assamese, Sanskrit, Urdu, Sindhi and Kashmiri languages. The project was undertaken by various agencies such as the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, Deccan College, Pune, Indian Institute of Applied Language Science, Bhubaneshwar, Sampurnanada Sanskrit University, Varanasi, and Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. However, the project was discontinued and later revived in the 2003. (See Dash, 2005)

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A.E.S. National College
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Prema K.S. Rao, Ph.D. (Speech and Hearing)
Professor of Language Pathology in Department of Speech Language Sciences
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Department of Special Education
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
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