LINGUIST List 14.485

Tue Feb 18 2003

Qs: Orthographic Conversions, Babbling Corpora

Editor for this issue: Naomi Fox <foxlinguistlist.org>

We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate. In addition to posting a summary, we'd like to remind people that it is usually a good idea to personally thank those individuals who have taken the trouble to respond to the query. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.html.

Directory

  1. Kutz Arrieta, Orthographic symbols conversions
  2. Lynne Murphy, Q: Babbling corpora

Message 1: Orthographic symbols conversions

 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:23:41 +0000
From: Kutz Arrieta <kutzdiana-tek.com>
Subject: Orthographic symbols conversions

Is there a table available for symbol conversions of the type:
''umlaut ''u'' in German can be written as ''ue''''?

I would need this for all languages.
Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue

Message 2: Q: Babbling corpora

 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:27:33 -0000
From: Lynne Murphy <lynnemcogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject: Q: Babbling corpora

On behalf of a student, I'm looking for readily available (preferably
transcribed) corpora of infant babbling. She is hoping to compare
babbling in (Saudi) Arabic and English, but we're interested in
finding whatever babbling data we can for comparison.

Looking through the CHILDES database handbook, the children involved
tend not to be recorded until at least over one year old and often not
until later. Since my student is interested in looking at younger
children, we've not noticed anything appropriate there, but it could
be that we're overlooking something or that there's babbling info in
more recent additions to the database. So if you'd like to suggest
the CHILDES database, we'd appreciate it if you could point out which
data sets in particular have a lot of babbling data.

Best wishes,

Lynne Murphy

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics

School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9QH
Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue