LINGUIST List 5.1158

Fri 21 Oct 1994

Qs: Expletives, Acoustic stress, Ling and imperialism, Software

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1. "Cari Spring", Q: Expletives
2. Jenifer S Larson-hall, acoustic stress
3. , is linguistics an imperialist science?
4. , KANJI CARD SOFTWARE

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On behalf of a student here, I am requesting any sources on expletives,
especially those embedded inside of words. Any work which has been done on
the formal properties of this type of infixation, on the syntactic properties
of words with expletives, or any sociolinguistic research would be welcome.
Please reply directly to me at cari_springcsusm.edu.

Thanks very much.

I would like to know whether there are have been any acoustic analyses of
stress done, including looking at stress as a result of vowel length.

In a recent office-chat, we came to the following observation:
The early development of grammar-books for languages and a grammatical
theory of a language went together with (language/ political/religious)
imperialism (emancipatory movements often ended up as just as
imperialistic). Cases: Greek, Roman empire, Spread of Arabic first
Spanish grammar, etc...

Does it hold true for other cases? If so, do we have to admit that
linguistics originated as an imperialistic science?
Are there clear counter-examples?

I'd love a discussion on that.

Ralf Grosserhode
Afrikanistik 2
Univertsitaet Bayreuth
Germany
Please reply to:
afrikanistik2uni-bayreuth.de or to the list, if it seems worth a discussion

In late 1991 or early 1992 I saw a demonstration of a software developed by
the University of Toronto Innovations Foundations (I believe that Prof.
Nakajima was behind that project) called KanjiCard. If my memory serves me
right, the software generated animations explained the shape of modern Kanji
characters based on their ethymology (or maybe only a mnemonic
representation).

I clearly remember the demo running on a Mac... Would anybody know if that
software is available for DOS or Windows ? Anyone know what company produces
it ? If at all possible, I would appreciate a contact for the distributor,
with phone number, E-mail or snail mail address.

Many thanks,

Marie Claude
MarieCALVIN.DGBT.DOC.CA