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A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content (open access)

A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content

This paper describes the design and development of a learning object repository for a new statewide higher education initiative.
Date: 2008
Creator: Barnes, Svetlana; Li, Fei; Polyakov, Serhiy & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa grammar and summaries (open access)

Notes on Dimasa grammar and summaries

Handwritten notes on Dimasa summarizing the status of Burling's description of various aspects of the language: interrogatives, modals, post-positions and subordinators, case marking, negation, TAM, and adverbials. Includes partial index of examples across multiple Dimasa notebooks.
Date: 2008-02/2009
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa phonology and grammar (open access)

Notes on Dimasa phonology and grammar

Handwritten notes on Dimasa with a brief description of the phoneme inventory and consonant clusters and notes on grammar (case marking, plural forms, question formation, tense and aspect marking) including example phrases and sentences. Word lists cover verbs of perception, verbs of motion, interrogatives, fire, insects, units of measurement, and numerals.
Date: 2008-01-25/2008-02
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Dimasa tones and vowel length (open access)

Notes on Dimasa tones and vowel length

Handwritten notes on Dimasa with special focus on tone, vowel length, and final glottals. Includes regional word list, words with final -p and -k, and minimal pairs and triplets demonstrating vowel length distinctions in adjectival forms.
Date: 2008-03-27/2008-04
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion about nouns

A discussion with Beshot Khullar about singular and plural nouns. Shobhana Chelliah and Harimohon Thounaojam are discussants.
Date: May 12, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion about Psalm 23 in Lamkang

Beshot Khullar translates and discusses Psalms 23 with Shobhana Chelliah and Thounaojam Harimohon Singh.
Date: May 22, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of a word list by Beshot Khullar

Beshot Khullar and Rex Khullar read and discuss a word list compiled by Harimohon Thounaojam.
Date: May 19, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of ideophones and reduplication transcript

Analytical discussion of ideophones and reduplication

Examples of ideophones and reduplication with Rengpu Rex Khullar and Beshot Khullar
Date: May 24, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of Lamkang proverbs

Recording of a translation and discussion of Lamkang proverbs with conversation about the process in Manipuri (Meiteiron).
Date: May 5, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Analytical discussion of reduplication

Discussion of reduplication with positive and negative connotations in Lamkang. Discussant are Beshot Khullar, Rengpu Rex Khullar and Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: May 24, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical discussion of speech acts transcript

Analytical discussion of speech acts

Rengpu Rex Khullar provides discussion and examples of speech acts: complimenting, apologizing, commanding and a traditional trickster story. These are compared to Manipuri (Meiteiron) speech acts with discussion from Harimohon Thounaojam.
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical notes on Lamkang grammar (open access)

Analytical notes on Lamkang grammar

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language with a table of contents.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about the hospital in Chandel and preparing for the Totlang Kam festival

Recording of Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar discussing about preparing for the Totlang Kam festival. There are three tracks. The first is the voice of Harimohon Thounaojam encouraging the speakers to pick a topic of conversation. The back and forth is clearly produced for the sake of the recorder and often resembles an interview rather than conversation.
Date: May 18, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversation about the Totlang Kam Festival transcript

Conversation about the Totlang Kam Festival

Beshot Khullar and Rengpu Rex Khullar talk about the Totlang Kam Festival. The exchange is useful for cultural information, lexical items related to this important festival, and question and answer exchanges. Rengpu Rex Khullar accompanied his father Beshot Khullar to Chennai to share information on Lamkang with Shobhana Chelliah.
Date: May 20, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about why linguists record conversations

Recording of a discussion among Harimohon Thounaojam, Rex Khullar, and Beshot Khullar about why linguists record conversations.
Date: May 17, 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dataset for a retelling of the Pear Story: Beshot

Dataset generated for analysis of The Pear Story as told by Beshot Khullar. The data set includes a sound recording, transcription with an English translation, flextext files (from Fieldworks Language Explorer), and accompanying derivative files.
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of how to make ironba transcript

Description of how to make ironba

Rex Khullar of Phaidaam Pantha explains how to make a traditional Lamkang spicy chutney called ironba.
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elicitation of active constructions through sportscaster language transcript

Elicitation of active constructions through sportscaster language

Illustrating Sportscaster Language. Shobhana Chelliah asks Rengpu Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam to describe goals and plays in an imaginary football (American soccer) game. Rex provides this in Lamkang, while Harimohon provides this in Manipuri. The purpose was to elicit focus and/or highly active constructions.
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Interview about traditional tools

A review of how some foods are cooked and naming of traditional tools by Beshot Khullar using a picture stimulus from a magazine called the "Souvenir".
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue about personal names transcript

Monologue about personal names

Beshot Khullar of Phaidaam Pantha Phaidaam explains the Lamkang convention of assigning personal names
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monologue about the importance of documenting Lamkang

Recording of Beshot Khullar discussing the importance of documenting the Lamkang language.
Date: 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on documentation done on Lamkang transcript

Monologue on documentation done on Lamkang

Beshot Khullar from Phaidaam Pantha reflects on the work that has been done on Lamkang to date, expresses concern for what knowledge is being lost, and requests and thanks Shobhana Chelliah for her work on Lamkang. He mentions a Bible verse of blessings that he quotes from Psalms 126:5-6: "Those who sow in tears, shall reap with songs of joy."
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monologue on play-by-play description of imagined soccer game transcript

Monologue on play-by-play description of imagined soccer game

Improvised play-by-play description of imagined soccer game in Manipuri (Meiteiron) by Harimohon Thounaojam
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notebook of Lamkang notes (open access)

Notebook of Lamkang notes

Handwritten notes on Lamkang language including word by word analysis of texts. Table of contents in the notebook. Includes the recordings contributed by Daniel Tholung.
Date: May 2008
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library