LINGUIST List 12.2948

Mon Nov 26 2001

FYI: Corpus of English, Zapotec Langs, Phonetics

Editor for this issue: Marie Klopfenstein <marielinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Gerald Nelson, International Corpus of English: New Website
2. Albert Bickford, [SIL-Mexico website]
3. Karen S. Chung, New phonetics Web site

A new website for the International Corpus of English (ICE) is now
available at:

http://www.hku.hk/english/research/ice/index.htm;

The site includes downloadable sound files from several ICE teams,
including Australia, India, Jamaica, East Africa, and the Philippines.


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Dr Gerald Nelson,
Research Assistant Professor,
Department of English,
The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road, 
Hong Kong SAR.

Email: ganelsonhkucc.hku.hk
Phone: (852) 2241-5141
Fax: (852) 2559-7139
<http://www.hku.hk/english/staff/ganelson.htm>;

Coordinator, The International Corpus of English (ICE)
<http://www.hku.hk/english/research/ice/index.htm>;

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I am pleased to announce the posting of the following item to the
SIL-Mexico
website:

Marlett, Stephen A. and Velma B. Pickett. Pluralization in Zapotec
Languages.
http://www.sil.org/mexico/zapoteca/G025a-ZapotecPlurals.htm
[November 2001]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this publication.

Albert Bickford
albert_bickfordsil.org

 Some of you may remember that some time back I posted three lists of
phonetics-related URLs to LINGUIST. Here are the links to the archived
copies, if you missed the original posts:
(1) http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1812.html#1
(2) http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1869.html#1 and
(3) http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1964.html#2 .

 I have begun incorporating these resources, together with additional
links and some original material, into a Web site. The URL is:

 http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung

 Enter the phonetics areas by clicking on "Introduction to Phonetics" and
"Phonetics II".

 My main target audience is Chinese (especially Taiwanese) university
students, and there are bits of Chinese text (in Big5) here and there in the
site, but non-Chinese may find things of interest as well (like a
downloadable virtual theremin as an aid to better understanding frequency
and amplitude, on p. 18). Many more pages are planned, including
student-authored tutorials on English pronunciation, and a list of
linguistics links and resources in Taiwan.

 I would be *very* grateful for any feedback, including first
impressions, corrections, and suggestions. I am also very interested in
collecting more URLs to phonetics sites (like maybe your own Web page?) that
are not in the original three lists.

 Many thanks!

 Karen Steffen Chung
 Department of Foreign Languages
 and Literatures
 National Taiwan University
 karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw
 http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung