1. Language and Thought (An insight through Hindi) SE 367 Introduction to Cognitive Science Course Project Sumit Verma Mentor – Dr. Amitabha Mukerjee, Dr. Achla M Raina

2.  Whorfianism  Differences can be due to :- Semantic/Structure View of the abstract world The Basics

3.  Background Hindi (SOV) v/s English (SVO)  Experiment Procedure Participants 8 Mess/Hall Workers (Hindi Speakers) and 21 X 2 Amazon Mechanical Turk HIT’s (English Speakers) Part A – Structure of a Language

4. Results American English SpeakersIndian Hindi Speakers

5.  Background (Bihari Hindi v/s Standard UP/MP Hindi) Bihari Hindi – Inanimate objects treated as Masculine Standard Hindi – Gender of the object depends on a set of rules Examples:- Baarish ho rha hai and Baarish ho rhi hai  Experiment Procedure Participants – 10 1 st Year IITK students from Bihar + 10 IITK students from UP/MP/Delhi Part B – Grammatical Gender in Language बारिश

6. Results Bihari Hindi SpeakersStandard Hindi Speakers (UP/MP) चाबी

7.  http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html  Linguistic Relativity – Lera Boroditsky (Galley – Article 00567)  The Linguistic Survey of India, vol. v. part ii. (1903)  Boroditsky, L., Schmidt, L., & Phillips, W. (2003). Sex, Syntax, and Semantics. In Gentner & Goldin-Meadow (Eds.,) Language in Mind: Advances in the study of Language and Cognition.  Semantic structure in improvised communication, (CogSci2011) Marieke Schouwstra, et. al (Anouschka van Leeuwen, Nicky Marien, Marianne Smit, Henri � ette de Swart) References Thank You!!!!