I am a professor at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and I work on phonetic, grammatical and lexical aspects of South Asian languages.
Publications
Authored Books
Tsuyoshi Nara and Peri Bhaskararao.
Songs of the Toda. Osaka : ELPR Series A3-011.91pp [+3CDs with sound
files of the songs]. 2003.
Tsuyoshi Nara and Peri
Bhaskararao. Toda Texts. Osaka : ELPR Series A3-005.94pp [+CD with sound
files of the texts]. 2002.
Tsuyoshi Nara and Peri Bhaskararao.
Toda Vocabulary -- A Preliminary List. Osaka : ELPR Series A3-002.208pp.
2001.
Peri Bhaskararao. Koṇekor Gadaba: A Dravidian language. Pune: Deccan College. 1980.
Peri Bhaskararao. Reduplication
and Onomatopoeia in Telugu. Pune: Deccan College. 1977.
Peri Bhaskararao. Practical
Phonetics-I. Pune: Deccan College. 1972.
Edited Volumes
Peri Bhaskararao. (ed.) Research
on Minority Languages of South and South-East Asia – Working Papers.
Vol.2 ILCAA. 2007.
Peri Bhaskararao. (ed.) Research
on Minority Languages of South and South-East Asia – Working Papers.
ILCAA. 2006.
Peri Bhaskararao and
K.V.Subbarao (ed.). Non-nominative Subjects. Volumes 1&2. 325pp +
319pp. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2004.
Peri Bhaskararao. (ed.) Working
Papers of International Symposium on Indic Scripts: Past and Present.
ILCAA:Tokyo. 391pp. 2003.
Peri Bhaskararao; K. V. Subbarao (ed.) The Yearbook of South
Asian Languages 2001. New Delhi. Thousand Oaks. London: Sage Publications.
2001
A.M.Ghatage; D.M. Joshi. Peri
Bhaskararao (ed) Studies in Transformational Grammar. Pune: Deccan
College. 1972.
Papers
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Ethnographic Information from Oral Texts: The Narration of the pïs̱-ïṭt Ceremony Of the Todas of
the Nilagiris”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics
(University of Kashmir). 3. 47-76pp. 2010.
Peri Bhaskararao and Peter
Ladefoged. “Timing constraints within gestures: A re-examination of Toda
sibilants”. Indian Linguistics.
Vol. 70.73-78pp. 2009.
Peri Bhaskararao; Sheeba
Hassan; I.A.Naikoo; P.A.Ganai; N.H.Wani; T.Ahmad. “A Phonetic Study of
Kashmiri Palatalization”. In: Minegishi, M. et al (ed.). Field
Research, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Informatics. [Working Papers in
Corpus-based Linguistics and Language Education - No.3]. Tokyo: Tokyo University
of Foreign Studies. 1-17pp. 2009.
Peri Bhaskararao. “Toda
Verbs ‘to be’ and ‘to become’”. In: Bhaskararao Peri (ed.) Research on
Minority Languages of South and South-East Asia – Working Papers Vol.2
ILCAA. 112-118 pp. 2007.
Peri Bhaskararao. “Toda
Verbal Stem Alternants”. In:
Bhaskararao Peri (ed.) Research on Minority Languages of South and
South-East Asia – Working Papers Vol.2 ILCAA. 119-141 pp. 2007.
Peri Bhaskararao. “Toda
Verbal Paradigms – Past, Non-past and Negative”. In: Bhaskararao Peri (ed.) Research on
Minority Languages of South and South-East Asia – Working Papers.
ILCAA. 119-141 pp. 2006.
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Telugu”. In: Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
-Second Edn. Keith Brown (Editor-in-Chief). Elsevier. Vol. 12. 555-58pp. 2005.
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Toda”. In: Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics
-Second Edn. Keith Brown (Editor-in-Chief). Elsevier. Vol. 12. 727-30pp. 2005.
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Phonetic Documentation of Endangered Languages – Creating a Knowledgebase
Containing Sound Recording, Transcription and Analysis”. Acoustic
Science and Technology (Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan) 25:4.
219-226pp. 2004.
K.V.Subbarao and Peri
Bhaskararao. “Non-nominative Subjects in Telugu”. In: Peri Bhaskararao.
and K.V.Subbarao (ed.). Non-nominative Subjects. Volume 1. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins. 209-244pp. 2004.
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Elements of Indian Indic Scripts”. In: Peri Bhaskararao. (ed.) Working
Papers of International Symposium on Indic Scripts: Past and Present.
ILCAA:Tokyo. 382-391pp. 2003.
Peri Bhaskararao. “Voiced
aspiration and tonogenesis in some South-Asian languages”. In: Kaji,
S. (ed.) Proceedings of the Symposium
on Cross-Linguistic Studies of Tonal phenomena: Tonogenesis, Typology, and
Related Topics. Tokyo: ILCAA. 337-51pp. 1999.
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Gadaba”. In: Steever,
Sanford. (ed.) The Dravidian Languages. London & New York:
Routledge. 1998. 328-55pp.
Sinisa Spajic', Peter Ladefoged
and Peri Bhaskararao. “The Trills of Toda”. Journal of
International Phonetic Association, Vol.26:No.1. 1-22pp. 1996.
Peri Bhaskararao. “A
Computerized Lexical Database of Tiddim Chin and Lushai”.In: Nara,
Tsuyoshi and Machida, Kazuhiko (ed.) A Computer-Assisted Study of
South-Asian Languages. Report No.6. Tokyo: ILCAA. 27-143pp.1996.
Peri Bhaskararao. “An
Analysis of Telugu numerals for implementation in a text-to-phoneme
system”. In: Tsuyoshi Nara (ed.). A Computer Assisted Study of
South-Asian languages. Report No.5. Tokyo: ILCAA. 33-41pp. [with Tsuyoshi
Nara]. 1994.
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Phonology-Script mismatch and the use of descriptive tags in Indian
languages”. In: Tsuyoshi Nara (ed.). A Computer Assisted Study of
South-Asian languages. Report No.5. Tokyo: ILCAA. 8-14pp. 1994.
Peri Bhaskararao. “Tiddim
Chin verbs and their alternants”. Journal of Asian and African
Studies. Nos.46-47: Issue 1. Tokyo: ILCAA. 333-360 pp. 1994.
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Phonetic Issues in the preparation of subphonemic segment inventories
for concatenative speech synthesis”. Keller, Eric (ed.) Fundamentals
of speech synthesis and recognition. John Wiley & Sons. 69-83pp. 1994.
Bhaskararao, Peri, Venkata
Peri, and Vishwas Udpikar. 1994. “A text-to-speech system for application
by visually handicapped and illiterate”. In Proceedings of ICSLP 94,
pages 1239–1242, Yokohama. 1994.
Michael Shalev, Peter Ladefoged
and Peri Bhaskararao. “Phonetics of Toda”. PILC Journal of
Dravidic Studies, 4:1. 19-56pp. 1994 (Earlier version in: University of
California Working Papers in Phonetics. Vol. 84. 89-126 pp.). 1993.
Barbara Blakenship, Peter
Ladefoged, Peri Bhaskararao., Nichumeno Chase. “Phonetics of Khonoma
Angami”. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. University of
California, Berkeley. Vol. 16. No.2. 69-88pp. 1993.
Peri Bhaskararao. and Peter
Ladefoged. “Two types of voiceless nasals”. Journal of
International Phonetic Association. 21:2. 80-88pp. [with Peter Ladefoged].
1992.
Bhatt , S.; Doctor, R.;
Bhaskararao P. “Implementation of a Spelling Checker for Hindi : Usage of
Word Formation Rules and Economy”. In: Sinha, R.M.K. (ed) Proc.
Computer Processing of Asian Languages-2. 87–92 pp. 1992.
S.M.Ranade and Peri
Bhaskararao. “Marathi Word Identification Procedures : Applications for a
Spelling Checker”. In: Sinha, R.M.K. (ed) Proc. Computer Processing of Asian Languages-2. 80 –
86pp. 1992.
Peri Bhaskararao. and S.
Mathew. “Phonemic transcription rules for text-to-speech synthesis of
Hindi”. In: Sinha, R.M.K. (ed) Proc. Computer Processing of Asian Languages-2. New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill. 1992.
Peri Bhaskararao; Godse,G.;
Singh, J.; Singh, R. “An Approach to Machine Translation of Cognate
Languages -- A Case of Hindi and Panjabi”. In: Sinha, R.M.K. (ed) Proc.
Computer Processing of Asian Languages-2.1992.
Peri Bhaskararao and Mathur,
Rita. “Phonetic Nature of Anusvaara”. BDCRI. Vol.51-52.
229-31pp. 1991-92.
Peri Bhaskararao.; S.J. Eady;
J.H. Esling. “Use of triphones for demisyllable-based speech
synthesis”. pp.517-520, Proc. of International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing-91. 1991.
Peri Bhaskararao. “Sounds
of Major Indian Languages and of Russian: A Comparison”. BDCRI. 49.
53-58pp. 1990.
Peri Bhaskararao. “The
Process of Chiming in Tiddim Chin”. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman
Area. Berkeley: U. of California. 12:1. 1989.
Peri Bhaskararao. South Asia
and transfer of Computer Technology: Some Linguistic Aspects”. In: International
Proceedings on Micro-Computer Technology and Cognitive Processes. Aligarh
Muslim University. 1987.
Peri Bhaskararao. “A
Preliminary Study of Base Vowel Reduction among Indian Languages. Proc.
International Workshop in Speech Processing (TIFR, Bombay). 65-72pp. 1988.
Peri Bhaskararao. and M.
Prasad. “Length of Marathi /ə/: An Instrumental
Study”. BDCRI 45. 1986.
Peri Bhaskararao. “A
Re-examinatin of Consonantal and Vowel Sandhi in Telugu”. BDCRI.
1985.
Peri Bhaskararao. “A Note
on the Past Irrealis in Telugu”. BDCRI 44. 1985.
Peter Ladefoged and Peri
Bhaskararao. “Non-Quantal Aspects of Consonant Production: A Study of
Retroflex Consonants”. Journal of Phonetics. 291-302pp. 1983.
Peri Bhaskararao. and
S.K.Joshi. “A Study of Newari Classifiers”. BDCRI. 1983.
Peri Bhaskararao. “The
Preconsonantal Nasal in Telugu”. Pakha Sanjam (Punjabi Univ.) XV.
385-90pp. 1982.
Peri Bhaskararao. “Verbal
Compounding in Telugu”. BDCRI. 35. 1975.
Peri Bhaskararao. “The
Syntax of Telugu Existential and Copulative Predications”. In: Verhaar,
J.W.M. (ed.). Verb ‘to be’ and Its Synonyms. Vol. 5. Foundations
of Language Supplementary Series. Dordrecht, Holland. 1973.
Peri Bhaskararao.
“Pronouns and Pronominal Compounds in Telugu”. Proc. of the 3rd
Seminar on Dravidian Linguistics. 263-72pp. Annamalainagar: Annamalai
University. 1972.
Peri Bhaskararao. “On
Delimitation”. Studies in Transformational Grammar. Pune: Deccan
College. 1972.
Peri Bhaskararao. “A
sketch of Koṇekor Gadaba Phonology”.
Linguistic Survey Bulletin. Pune: Deccan College.1970.
Peri Bhaskararao. “A
Grammar of Telugu Causative Constructions”. Proc. of the 1st All-India
Conference of Lingists. Pune: Linguistic Society of India. 1970.
Peri Bhaskararao. “Gutob
Gadaba Phonology”. Linguistic Survey Bulletin. Pune: Deccan
College.1969.
Editorial Work
Worked as the Chief Editor of
"Indian Linguistics", and edited four volumes of the journal (1977:
Vol 38 (total 263pp.); 1978: Vol 38 (total 314pp.); 1979: Vol 40 (total 322
pp.); 1980: Vol 41 (total 205 pp.).
Member, Editorial Team, South
Asia Language Pedagogy and Technology [E-Journal of the South Asia Language
Resource Center, University of Chicago. 2008~
http://salpat.uchicago.edu/index.php/salpat/about/editorialTeam]
Professional Memberships
Life Member, Linguistic Society of India
(positions held: Editor of Publications,
Treasurer, Vice-President;
Currently President (2009-2011)
Life Member, Dravidian Linguistic Association
Life Member, International Phonetic Association
(Past Council Member)
Life Member, Acoustical Society of India
Life Member, Phonetic Society of India
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