LINGUIST List 4.204

Fri 19 Mar 1993

Qs: OCR, Unreleased C's, English in Korea, Propaganda, word

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1. Brendan Dalton US/ES #71602, OCR
2. , Unreleased consonants
3. IPrA, Question on English in S.Korea
4. Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak, The language of Propaganda
5. CALIX, Query: English word?

I, too, am interested in OCR, but I'd like some advice. What sort
of scanner, and what sort of software should I buy. I want to scan
Gaelic texts in a number of Latin-based fonts, so I'd like to be sure
that the software could distinguish accented vowels from their unaccented
equivalents (e.g. 'i' from 'i-grave' or 'i-acute'). As the money for
all this will be coming from my own pocket, keep the price low, please!
BTW, if you know of any I should avoid, I'd also be pleased to get
your advice.

-- Brendan Dalton --
brendanus-es.sel.de ,
Ritheann an fear seo ar phoitin.

I am on the hunt for a language with unreleased consonsantal
phonemes. I am doing research for a paper on sonority in Dependency
Phonology, and am interested in the minimally sonorous end of the
scale.

Any refs or notes most welcome.


Regards,

Simon Corston
SHCantnov1.aukuni.ac.nz

In order to complete a research report, I badly need the following
information concerning the English input in South Korea:
1. Is English a required subject for high school/university students? To
what extent?
2. At what age does formal instruction in English start ?
3. How prominent is English in daily life (e.g. radio, television, cinema,
advertising, pop music, etc.) compared to Western Europe.

Any additional information is welcome!

Thank you very much in advance,

Michael Meeuwis,
IPrA Research Center

One of my students is looking for literature on the linguistic,
sociolinguistic and pragmatic treatment of the language of
propaganda. Any help would be appreciated.

One of my students asked me whether the word below was English? Her
mother an English L1 speaker regularly uses it. Help, please? Where
did mother find this word?
1. He was three years "ferninst" the mast.
2. Do not speak like that "ferninst" your mother.
Thanks. Replies to Lloyd Holliday
edulhlure.latrobe.edu.au