LINGUIST List 12.908

Sun Apr 1 2001

FYI: Transcriptions Online, Syntax Test, Ling Humor

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Stefan Rabanus, Transcription of German and Italian Conversations
2. Dr. James Au-Yeung, Announcing ROST -- a computer-based test for syntax development
3. Tosh, You are a linguist when...

I would like to encourage all those who work in the field of
conversation analysis or do research of intonation in conversation to
use my transcriptions (45 minutes) of German and Italian conversations
at

http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/sonst/2000/0003/

I used the GAT transcription system for the representation of turn
structure, stress, utterance-final pitch movements and some other
prosodic features. The intonation contour is represented in ToBI. I
think it necessary to make this type of empirical data which is always
hard to get available for anyone who is interested in it.


- 
Dr. Stefan Rabanus
Deutscher Sprachatlas
Universitaet Marburg - FB 09
D 35032 Marburg
Tel.: +49 (0)6421-2822483
Fax: +49 (0)6421-2828936

Dear Colleagues,

The Speech Group at UCL Psychology wishes to announce the release of a 
computer-based test of syntax/grammar development. The test can be run with 
children as young as 2. Please see the following webpage for more details:

http://www.speech.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/PROST/Rost.html

Contact info can be found on the webpage. A paper which describes an earlier 
version targeting children aged 2-4 is also available (following the link from 
the above page).

Please pass this message on to those who might be interested and apology if you 
have received this message more than once.



Regards, 


Peter Howell, James Au-Yeung & Steve Davis

The Speech Group
Department of Psychology
University College London

email: p.howellucl.ac.uk

It's the busy time of the year for everyone, and I thought people might
appreciate a *light* reading.
This is my creative writing; I hope you like it.

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You know you are a linguist when you...

- plan your next vacation on a wh-island.
- have a c-commanding relationship with your siblings and an m-commanding
relationship with your cousins.
- dream about colorless green ideas that sleep furiously
- build a garden path in your backyard.
- name your dog "morphophonemics"
- start to question the superiority of English language
 - your coffee filter is replaced by a comp-trace filter
- your new Email password is "bahuvrihi"
- feel you are bound like an anaphor because you have to finish your school,
have a family, etc.
- fear your big PRO is always watching and your small pro is always
disappearing
- think this is funny.
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Tosh

e-mail: lastcreatureyahoo.com
homepage: http://www.freespeech.org/lastman/index.html