Request to Hindi speakers: Very short questionnaire

[Shravan Vasishth]

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To all Hindi native speakers on this list,

I'm preparing a series of experiments on the psycholinguistics of sentence
processing in Hindi. In this connection, I first need to do what is called
a norming study, in order to check the validity of the data I'll be
working on.

The questionnaire below is one such norming study and I would be extremely
grateful if you could complete this and email it back to me at
vasishth at ling.ohio-state.edu.

The questionnaire will probably not take more than 15 minutes to complete.

Many thanks!

                              Questionnaire

Sentence completion task:

Please complete the following incomplete Hindi sentences.

1. Sanjay ne ...

2. Ravi ne Sita ko Hari ko ...

3. aaj Ashok ...

4. Usha ne Sunita ko Madhu ko ...

5. jaaegi Priti Calcutta ...

6. Sushila kal Ritu ko ...

7. Rekha ne kitaab ...

8. Rahul ne Kavita ko ghar ko ...

9. Prabal ne mujh ko  ...

10. Anil ne Seema ko Veena ko ...

11. mai ne Rita ko ...

12. Kamal ne Suresh ko Uma ko ...

13. Rupa zaruur use ...

14. Arvind ne Anuj ko Raj ko ...

15. Madhuri hii ye kaam ...

16. Meena ne Ramesh ko Sita ko kitaab ...

17. Prashant aaj kal kya ...

Debriefing/feedback questions:

1.  Did you figure out what the focus of this questionnaire is?  If so,
what do you think I'm trying to find out?


2.  Do any of the incomplete sentences as I gave them above look odd to
you in any way at all?  If so, please tell me what you found odd.



3.  Would you like to add any other comments you might have?



Thanks very much!  Please send your response to

vasishth at ling.ohio-state.edu

--
Shravan Vasishth
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~vasishth