Published on: April 2026
HINDIS: GENDER SWITCHES (OR NOT?)
Thakur Anjeev Prakash
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Hindi is one of the largest languages in India, spoken over a wide area from the western borders of India to the eastern most parts of India, namely Arunachal Pradesh. Though, Hindi as a mother tongue, in the “Hindi Belt” is not uniform. There are multiple varieties of the language spoken in different parts of India. This paper studies the contrast between two varieties, the Standard variety and the variety spoken in the regions of eastern Uttar Pradesh and large parts of Bihar. These two varieties contrast in terms of markedness in gender agreement. This paper seeks to study how a native speaker of one variety switches to another variety (or not) when given a cue of gender (un)markedness using a 2x2x2 self-paced reading SPR experiment.
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Prakash, T. A. (2026). Hindis: Gender Switches (Or Not?). International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(04). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.807
Prakash, Thakur. "Hindis: Gender Switches (Or Not?)." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 04, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.807.
Prakash, Thakur. "Hindis: Gender Switches (Or Not?)." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 04 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.807.
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