LINGUIST List 10.148

Mon Feb 1 1999

Qs: Pronunciation, Wittgenstein, Whitney article

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. HlneKnoerr, Pronunciation Software
2. Solovyev V.D., Wittgenstein's private language
3. MARC PICARD, Whitney article

Dear Linguist,

Do you know of any research that has been done on the use of speech
pathology software (e.g., VideoVoice) or pronunciation- and intonation
based software in language classes? I have done a limited experiment
with VideoVoice to teach French intonation in a second language course
and would be interested in sharing notes and results with people who
did similar work.

Thank you,

Hlne Knoerr
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Hlne Knoerr
Institut des langues secondes
Universit d'Ottawa
600 King Edward
OTTAWA, Ontario K1H 7P7
hknoerruottawa.ca
(613) 562-5800/ 3475
(613) 562-5126 (fax)
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Dear colleagues, 

We would like to ask what do you think
about the following questions:

 1) Specifically _linguistic_, rather than philosophical,
 responses to Wittgenstein's 'private language
 argument' in his Philosophical Investigations.
 This argument discusses the possibility - or 
 impossibility - of imagining a language only one
 speaker uses or invents. 

 2) Or linguists who have examined Wittgenstein's
 private language argument by separating it into
 a) the impossibility of a private vocabulary, and
 b) the impossibility of private grammar rules. 

Thank you,

Mark Griffith
markgriffithyahoo.com
Valery Solovyev
solovyevtatincom.ru 

Would anybody happen to know where the following article was
published:

Whitney, William D. (1974) "The relative frequency of simple sounds in
English".

Marc Picard