LINGUIST List 11.2465

Tue Nov 14 2000

Qs: Mass vs. Count Nouns,Speech Analysis Software

Editor for this issue: James Yuells <jameslinguistlist.org>

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1. Julio Viejo, Mass Nouns vs. Count Nouns
2. Robert Inglis, Speech Analysis Software

In Asturian language, there is grammatical opposition between count and
mass nouns, reflected in their morphological concordances with adjetives or
pronouns. So, we distinguish:

	Papel blancU (count noun: "a white piece of paper")// papel blancO (mass
noun "white paper [as a material]")// papeles blancOS (plural: "white
papers")

	Mazana roxA (count noun: "a red apple")// mazana roxO (mass noun: "the
whole class of apples of this colour")// mazanes roxES (plural: "red
apples")

	This morphological opposition is known, in different ways, in many other
languages (English, some Italian dialects, dialectal Spanish, Indian
languages like Wintun, ...). 
	I am looking for information about all human languages with similar
characteristic, as well as bibliography in other languages than Spanish
about count and mass nouns, particularly (but not exclusively) from a
cognitive and pragmatic perspective.
	You may send information to jviejocorreo.uniovi.es (Julio Viejo
Fern�ndez, Departament of Spanish Philology, University of Oviedo,
Asturies-Spain	).


		Thank you.

Hi:

I'm doing so work involving speech analysis, and I was wondering if anyone 
could help me locate a source for an inexpensive speech analysis software 
program? I need a program that will split a given sound wave into its 
components -- Volume and Pitch ('Fundamental Frequency'). I've found some 
programs that do do this, but they are prohibitively expensive --- does 
anyone know of any such program that's free or shareware or something of the 
like?

Thanks,
R. Inglis