LINGUIST List 4.388

Mon 24 May 1993

Qs: Starostin, Flapping, SGML, Tag sets

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1. , Query: Where are Starostin and Kaiser
2. Geoffrey S. Nathan<, Query: American flapping
3. Anoop Sarkar, Wanted Info about SGML
4. , Seeking Information on Tag Sets for Languages Other than English

Does anybody know the current whereabouts of Sergei Starostin or
Mark Kaiser?

For a study I am doing on American English flaps I would appreciate
any references (especially the obscure ones) that anyone knows about.
Also, for the phonetically minded among us, how, besides the now
defunct Microbeam facility, can they be studied instrumentally?
Is there a definition of a flap such that it could be recognized
on a waveform display and/or spectrogram?
Many thanks.
 Geoffrey S. Nathan
 GA3662SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU
 Department of Linguistics
 Southern Illinois University
 Carbondale, IL, 62901 USA
 Phone: (618) 453-3421

Can anyone inform me as to where can I get detailed information about
SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)? Is it the most widespread
of all markup methods or is there some other standard markup method for
tagging corpora that is more widely used nowadays?

Please respond directly to my email address.

Thank you

Anoop Sarkar
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007, India

I am familiar with many of the part-of-speech tag sets for English
(e.g. Brown, UPenn Treebank, LOB, CLAWS1, CLAWS2, etc.) However, I
need information about equivalent tag sets for languages other than
English. (I do have a description of the tag set used by JUMAN for
Japanese.) I would appreciate any descriptions, or pointers to
published descriptions, of such tag sets.

Please EMail to:

ingriabbn.com

Thanks in advance.

Bob Ingria