A retelling of the Pear Story as recorded in Hyderabad with young speakers in the diaspora.

Recording of a telling of the Pear Story at the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad.

Recording of a retelling of the Pear Story as narrated by Jessie from Hyderabad.

Retelling of the Pear Story by Angam Sankhil of Hyderabad.

Recording of Dina Shankhil telling her version of The Pear Story.

Recording of a telling of the Pear Story by Leivon Steney Lamkang in Hyderabad, India.

Recording of a telling of the Pear Story done at the Indian Institute of Information Technology with young Lamkang speakers in the diaspora.

Recording of Melissa Robinson eliciting verb prefixes with the syllable tapping experiment. The recording was done on in Hyderabad as part of the research trip which as part of the University of North Texas India Venture Fund research trip.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Harmon Moody. Moody quit high school and joined the Navy when he was 17 in early 1945. After recruit training, Moody was assigned to USS John W. Weeks (DD-701). Moody recalls a kamikaze attack. He also recalls going ashore at Nagasaki. When the war ended, Moody received his discharge and went into radio engineering.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Denzil Rogers. Rogers enlisted in the Army in November, 1944 and trained for the infantry in Arkansas. In April, 1945, he landed at Leyte where he joined the 132nd Infantry Regiment, Americal Division. He went to Japan with the Americal Division and was soon transferred to a military police outfit. Rogers remained in Japan until rotating to the US in October, 1946. He was then discharged.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Reed. Reed was drafted into the Army in June 1945, while he was in ninth grade. He later received his diploma in 1949. He went to Sheppard Field, Texas, Ft. McClellan, Alabama and Ft. MacArthur, California for training. In California he was a medical technician, though received no formal training. He worked in a separation center, taking blood pressure. He was in the 9th Service Command and the 6th Army. He also worked as a longshoreman in San Pedro. From there he was shipped up to Camp Beall, California where he worked the remainder of his Army career as a medic, driving an ambulance and giving shots to inductees coming into the Army. He was discharged in December 1946 and he worked for the Pure Oil Station, and then later at the Veterans Hospital in Montgomery. He used his G.I. Bill to go to business school in Montgomery, Alabama while working at the Veterans Hospital.

Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Melissa Robinson eliciting tone categories with Ningtamla Jangvei.

Melissa Robinson eliciting verb prefixes with Rebecca Leivon Lamkang.

Syllable Tapping Experiment with speaker Dina Sankhil Lamkang and Melissa Robinson as the experimental lead. The experiment was intended to determine speaker intuition about syllable structure in words with multiple prefixes.

Melissa Robinson eliciting minimal pairs with Rengshing Dilbung, Koko at Hyderabad.

Melissa Robinson performing the syllable tapping experiment with Shangnung Shankhil.

Melissa Robinson eliciting compound words with Angam Shankhil.

Melissa Robinson eliciting tone categories with Dina Shankhil Lamkang.

Melissa Robinson eliciting compound words with William Shilshi. Recorded at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India.

Melissa Robinson performing the syllable tapping experiment with Ringdom Shilshi.

Elicitation on tone: Melissa Robinson and Shobhana Chelliah record stems for tone investigation. The speaker/discussant is Angam Sankhil.

Syllable Tapping Experiment with speaker Jessie Sankhil Lamkang and Melissa Robinson as the experimental lead. The experiment was intended to determine speaker intuition about syllable structure in words with multiple prefixes.