LINGUIST List 12.1585

Sat Jun 16 2001

FYI: ELRA News, Openings at LSA Summer Institute

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

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1. Magali Duclaux, ELRA News 1/2
2. John W. Du Bois, Still Openings at LSA Summer Institute

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 ELRA
 European Language Resources Association
 ELRA News
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We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA:

ELRA S0107 Flemish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000
ELRA S0108 Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000
ELRA S0109 Luxemburgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500
ELRA S0110 Luxemburgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500

A description of each database is given below.

ELRA S0107 Flemish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000

This database is comprised of telephone recordings from 1023
Flemish speakers (461 Males, 562 Females) recorded directly
over the Belgian fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word
was repeated about 5 times.

ELRA S0108 Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000

The Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 comprises 1011
Belgian-French speakers (493 Males, 518 Females) recorded
over the Belgian fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word
was repeated about 2 times.

ELRA S0109 Luxemburgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500

The Luxembourgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 comprises
614 Luxembourgish-French speakers (246 Males, 368 Females)
recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. Each
phrase or word was repeated about 3 times.

ELRA S0110 Luxemburgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500

This database comprises 560 Luxembourgish-German speakers
(247 Males, 313 Females) recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed
telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about one time.

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For further information, please contact:

ELRA/ELDA
55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin
F-75013 Paris, France

Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33
Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30

E-mail mapellielda.fr

or visit the online catalogue on our Web site:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
or http://www.elda.fr
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Let me call your attention to the fact that we are still accepting 
students and affiliates for the Linguistic Society of America's 2001 
Institute, June 25 - August 3, in Santa Barbara, California . There are 
many events of interest to members of this list, including 3-week and 
6-week courses on functional linguistics, discourse, grammar, semantics, 
pragmatics, conversation analysis, language & culture, prosody, intonation, 
and other topics too numerous to mention here. International conferences to 
be held in conjunction with the Institute include the Intenational 
Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Society for Text and Discourse, 
International Association for Linguistic Typology, and more. (See the web 
site listed below.) It's not too late -- come and join us for a memorable 
and stimulating summer!
 --Jack Du Bois

Please consult the website at http://www.summer.ucsb.edu/lsa2001/index.htm 
for a full schedule of events, and application and housing information. If 
you have any questions, please email the Institute Coordinator at 
lsa2001summersessions.ucsb.edu . 
 
The following gives some more officical information:
"The Linguistic Society of America's 2001 Institute will be held on the 
campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara this summer. We are 
still accepting applications and some housing options are available. The 
theme of the Institute is 'Linguistic Diversity: How and Why Languages 
Differ' with a special emphasis on Pacific Rim Languages. In addition to 
the core linguistic courses, there will also be courses in language use, 
language and culture, language acquisition, and literacy. In keeping with 
the focus on linguistic diversity, there are courses delving into the 
special complexities of several typologically different language families. 
There will also be several sets of related courses which constitute 
sub-institutes, organized around such topics as Minimalism, Conversational 
Analysis, Teaching English as a Second Language, Chinese corpus 
linguistics, Japanese linguistics, and Korean linguistics. In addition, a 
rich selection of workshops and conferences, some small and some large, 
will be held during the Institute