LINGUIST List 14.1244

Fri May 2 2003

FYI: Logic & Lang Camp; Fieldwork Publications/Bantu

Editor for this issue: Renee Galvis <reneelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. NASSLLI'03 Bloomington, Indiana, EXTENDED Registration Lang & Logic Camp
2. Linguistic Data Consortium, New LDC Publications

EARLY REGISTRATION EXTENDED to May 10 for

 NASSLLI'03, MoL 8, and TARK IX

NASSLLI'03, June 17-21
North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
www.indiana.edu/~nasslli

NASSLLI is a week-long summer school featuring courses on many topics
of interest to students and researchers. The main focus is on the
interface between linguistics, logic, and computation, broadly
conceived, and on related fields. NASSLLI includes twelve courses a
student session, invited evening speakers, and lively interaction.

NASSLLI is co-located this year with two conferences:

MoL 8, June 20-22
Mathematics of Language
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol8program.pdf

MoL offers a platform for research on mathematical linguistics and the
mathematical study of natural languages.


TARK IX, June 20-22
Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge
http://www.tark.org/cfp03.html

TARK brings together researchers from a wide variety of fields in
order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues
involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge.

ACT NOW for early registration!

To register for any of these, please see www.indiana.edu/~nasslli


When registering, please disregard the May 1st deadline, you will be
charged only the early registration fee.

 		LDC2003L01
 * Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Lexicon *

 		LDC2003S02
 * Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Tone Paradigms *


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The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
availability of two new publications.


1. The Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Lexicon contains a
lexicon of the language Y�mba (Bamileke Dschang), a Bamileke
(Grassfields Bantu) language spoken in Southwestern Cameroon. The
publication consists of one CD-ROM.

The data is organized into two sets of pages in HTML format. In the
first set, one page lists every word in the lexicon that begins with a
given letter (or letter combination). In the second set, one page
lists approximately 25 entries, unless there are fewer than 25 entries
beginning with a given letter. The second set is more convenient for
use on slower machines.

Each entry under a headword has links to 2 or more soundfiles. Two
speakers were recorded; a given entry generally contains links to
utterances of the headword by both speakers, as well as a laryngograph
recording of the headword by the second speaker. Nouns may also have
links to pronunciations of the plurals, and verbs may have links to
pronunciations of the imperative and infinitive forms. These ancillary
forms will in general also have laryngograph recordings.

For further information, please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003L01

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2003
Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.

NOTE:

The cost of the first 100 copies of this publication (not counting the
copies distributed to LDC members) is covered by NSF Grant Number
9983258, and therefore free of charge to qualified researchers; a $30
shipping and handling fee applies. After these first 100 copies are
distributed, additional copies will be available for the production
cost of $150 per CD-ROM.


2. The Grassfields Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Tone Paradigms contains
tone paradigms of the language Y�mba (Bamileke Dschang), a Bamileke
(Grassfields Bantu) language spoken in Southwestern Cameroon. The
publication is available on a single CD-ROM.

The data consists of 45 paradigm pages in html format. Each page lists
32 utterances, varying across subject, verb, and object. Each
utterance has 1 to 3 links to recordings in .wav format, as well as a
laryngograph recording (also in .wav format). Phonetic transcription
has been completed for every utterance; tonological transcription has
been completed for a little more than half.

For further information, please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003S02

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2003
Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.

NOTE:

The cost of the first 100 copies of this publication (not counting the
copies distributed to LDC members) is covered by NSF Grant Number
9983258, and therefore free of charge to qualified researchers; a $30
shipping and handling fee applies. After these first 100 copies are
distributed, additional copies will be available for the production
cost of $150 per CD-ROM.


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If you need additional information before placing your order, or
would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email to
<ldcldc.upenn.edu> or call (215) 573-1275.


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