Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad&nbsp;(IIT Palakkad or IIT PKD) is a public autonomous&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;and&nbsp;research&nbsp;institute located in&nbsp;Palakkad,&nbsp;Kerala. It was&nbsp;one of the five new&nbsp;IITs&nbsp;proposed in the&nbsp;2014 Union budget of India. The campus was inaugurated on 3 August 2015. The institute has 94 faculty, 978 students, and 63 non-teaching staffs.

IT Palakkad currently offers four-year Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and two years MS programmes in 8 different engineering disciplines including&nbsp;Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil among others.

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In the light of the ongoing prioritisation of Hindi by the central government, the projection of Hindi as the “self” is problematic for several reasons. Three “self–other” binaries are discussed in this regard: Hindi–Hindu as “self,” Urdu–Muslim as “other”; Sanskrit-laden Hindi favouring upper caste Hindus as “self,” vernacular Hindi dialects often represented by the lower castes and classes as “other”; and finally Hindi as the epitome of “desi self,” English as “foreign other.”. © 2018 Economic and Political Weekly. All Rights Reserved.

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Economic and Political Weekly

Problematising Hindi as the ‘self’ and English as the ‘other’

Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies 6 (1-2)

Indian English at Sociolinguistic Crossroads: Impact of the Tripartite Relationship between Schooling, Social Class and English in Urban India

Apart from Tamil, Malayalam is the only Dravidian language that still retains a fifth liquid in its inventory denoted as , a sound that can be traced back to Proto-Dravidian. The phonetic and phonological status of this sound has been the subject of considerable debate, both in terms of its rhotic versus lateral status and its phonetic realisation. Studies to date have been impressionistic, so this is the first acoustic study of all five liquids in Malayalam. Production data from 8 male speakers reveal that while is realised as a central post-alveolar approximant, its ambiguous phonotactic patterning and mixed acoustic profile are contributors to its mixed identity. An understanding of the complex patterning of this sound, which straddles the rhotic/lateral divide, requires an appreciation of the role of secondary acoustic resonance in distinguishing members of a crowded liquid system and in preventing a merger. © 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel.

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Phonetica

The contested fifth liquid in Malayalam: A window into the lateral-rhotic relationship in dravidian languages

Rhotics: new data and perspectives

Articulating five liquids: A single speaker ultrasound study of Malayalam

Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2011)

Phonetic and Phonological Investigation of the Fifth Liquid in Malayalam : Evidence for Rhotic Characteristics

School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences

An auditory and acoustic study of liquids in Malayalam