LINGUIST List 3.378

Fri 01 May 1992

Qs: Korean, L2, Psycholinguistics, German

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1. Hiromi Morikawa, Query: causatives in Korean
2. , L2 learning/cultural empathy
3. "Mimi Klaiman", Psycholinguistics teaching
4. , German Corpora
5. S Wang, T

Could anyone point me to any books and articles about causative
constructions in Korean? Please send an e-mail directly to me.
Thanks you!

Hiromi Morikawa
hiromipsych.stanford.edu

A graduate student in Education approached a colleague of mine with
a query which Linguist people may be able to help with. He is doing
an evaluation of an exchange program with Indonesia one object of which
is to prepare more high school teachers of Indonesia here in Australia.

He wondered if there is anything written on the correlation of degree
of acquisition of an L2 with degree of empathy and participation in the
culture of the L2 speakers. High involvement/skills might seem to be a
good thing for teachers in both areas; however negative aspects might be
there. Apparently there seems to be a correlation between development of
good skills in the language and dropping out of teaching. Could this be
due to "culture shock" on return to Australia of those who became most
deeply immersed?

Any references/ideas gratefully received. If there are a number, I could
summarise.

Patrick McConvell, Anthropology, Northrn Territory University, PO Box
40146, Casuarina, NT 0811, Australia

For an undergraduate course I will shortly be teaching in psycholinguistics, I
would appreciate any suggestions as to texts which other instructors have had
good experiences with. Also, I would be indebted if anyone can offer specific
references to the work of Helen Neville on deaf alinguals and the acquisiton of
ASL. Thanks
M. Klaiman (klaimanumnacux.bitnet)

I am looking for on-line corpora of Modern German. Any information would be
 appreciated.

Ken Beesley
beesley.parcxerox.com

Hi,

HELP! I have to design an experiment to do with Mandarin tones as
part of a phonology requirement on my graduate course.
There seems to be very little literature on this in the library.

If anyone can think of any on-going debates on the phonology/phonetics
of Mandarin tones for which an experiment would be useful, please
could you give me information and references.

I would welcome any suggestions at all.

Thanks a lot,

Sophia Wang. (sophialing.ed.ac.uk)