LINGUIST List 11.797

Fri Apr 7 2000

FYI: Summer: Lang in Context, Website/General Ling

Editor for this issue: Lydia Grebenyova <lydialinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Keith Johnson, Summer School/ Spoken Lang in Context - Ohio State Univ, USA
2. Bruce Nevin, New Website: General Linguistics and more/ Zellig Harris

Second Notice
Updated information available on the website.
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Summer 2000 at Ohio State University

Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models

During July of 2000, the Department of Linguistics at the
Ohio State University will be offering a unique combination
of short courses aimed at exploring spoken language, with a
particular focus on the empirical study of naturally-occurring
speech through various instrumental, quantitative, and analytic
means. Scholars, researchers (industry or academic), and
students are invited to join us for an intense and rewarding
summer session.

Course offerings:
 Laboratory Phonology - Mary Beckman
 Quantitative Methods - Michael Broe
 Field Phonetics - Keith Johnson
 Historical Phonology - Brian Joseph & Richard Janda
 Practicum in English Intonation - Julia McGory
 The Pragmatics of Focus - Craige Roberts

For more information see the website:
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000

Linguists may be interested in a new website,
http://informatics.cpmc.columbia.edu/zellig/ 

This web site is dedicated to the work of Zellig Harris in language,
grammar, and information, and explores current related research in
linguistics, computer science, mathematics, and philosophy of science. 

Contents include:
 
Discussion forum
 Archive of all postings to Discussion List
 Send a new posting to the Discussion List
 Participant contact information
New Book
 Apropos of Zellig Harris
Reviews
 A grammar of English on mathematical principles
 Language and information
 The transformation of capitalist society
Resources
 Bibliography
 A Minimalist Program for Linguistics (review article)
Obituaries
 by Henry Hiz
 by Peter Matthews
 by Bruce Nevin

Other material is being added as it becomes available. For example, 
the following reviews are not yet included:

 A theory of language and information
 The form of information in science

This site is maintained by Stephen Johnson
Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University 
<stephen.johnsoncolumbia.edu>