Vemireddy Ramachandra Reddy

DRAVIDIAN UNIVERSITY · DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMMUNICATIONS

Historical Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics, Positive Psychology, Personality Psychology, Health Psychology, Discourse Analysis, Morphology, Psycholinguistics

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Research Experience

Jun, 2010
A study on ‘Koya’ language spoken in south Indian state of Andhrapradesh with reference to Chomsky's recursion theory and universal grammar.
DRAVIDIAN UNIVERSITY; Kuppam; Chittoor Dist; Andhrapradesh, Department of English and Communications
Chomskyan Linguistics
Kuppam, India
Koya, Gondi dialect, script, oral, recursion, language universals; Bhadrachalam; Khammam; Chintoor

Education

Jun, 2005 - Jul, 2007
University of Madras
Linguistics
M.Phil
Chennai
Languages:
Telugu(mother tongue)
English
Hindi
Sanskrit
Koya

Contact Details

Business:
SRINIVASAVANAM, KUPPAM, India, Andhrapradesh
Institution:
DRAVIDIAN UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMMUNICATIONS
Telephone:
+91 08742211306

Other

About me:
I live in a town called Khammam in the southern state of Andhrapradesh. I work with LAQSHYA Engineering College- Khammam. I'm a part time researcher at Department of English and Communications in Dravidian University; kuppam. My area of research is the linguistic accounts of Chomsky.
Leisure activities:
Browsing Net to find out inputs in my research, reading e books, interacting with media and listening to music. I blog in BRITISH COUNCIL website http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/eggheadedram


Favorite Journals:
Language in India (www.languageinindia.com)
Favorite Publications:
Scientific American
Favorite Books:
The Monk who Sold his Ferrari-Robin Sharma
The Song Celestial-Arnold
How to Win friends and Influence people-Dale Carnegie
The Lexus and the Olive Tree-Thomas L Friedman
Ageless Body and Timeless Mind-Deepak Chopra
Made in Japan-Okio Morita
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes-Daniel Everett
Teaching activities:
Training students in communication skills

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Academic Degrees

B.Com; M.Com; M.A; M.Phil; Research Scholar, Dravidian University

Research Keywords

Language Universals, Language acquisition, Universal Grammar, Chomsky, Language Acquisition Device(LAD), critical period, Poverty of Stimulus, human brain, scarce input, innateness hypothesis, first language, Broca's area, Wernicke's area, Sylvian fissure, Linguistic Analysis, Chomskyan Grammar, Mura-Piraha, Daniel Everett, B.F. Skinner, Behaviourism

Current Advisors

Dr.R.Dyvadatham Asst. Professor in English Department of English and Communications Dravidian University Kuppam

Past Advisors

Dr.U.Sundararajan Asst.Professor in English Pachchyappa's College Chennai

Current Location

KUPPAM, India