LINGUIST List 5.1212

Tue 01 Nov 1994

Qs: Passive/Ergative, X-rays/acoustic signals, Chinese, Kwaiisu

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1. , Summary: Passive from Ergative
2. "FRANKE INGOLF", x-rays and acoustic signals
3. , Chinese/English word processing under DOS or Windows
4. CAVEMAN -- San Bernardino, Calif. USA, NALI '94 & Kwaiisu Info

A huge number of people have suggested Indo-Aryan and Polynesian
as language groups where ergative comes from passive, but both
of these are currently controversial (since the source constructions
are sometimes claimed to have themselves been ergative to begin with).
If anybody knows of any other examples, please let me know.

Dear phoneticians,
in my recent research I am working on the correlation between the
articulatory movement of speech organs and their acoustic signal. For
this reason I am looking for videotapes containing x-ray films together
with corresponding acoustic speech signals. I would like to know if such
videotapes do already exist and perhaps an alternative technology is
available which is less unhealthy than x-ray to be able to make own tapes
for German articulation.

Thank you very much in advance for your information.

Ingolf Franke
Zeughausstrasse 31
D-54292 Trier

e-mail: fran2801pcmail.uni-trier.de

What software is available for word processing in Chinese under DOS
or Windows? Ability to handle English as well, or at least ASCII
(preferably extended ASCII), would be highly desirable. Please reply
directly to me, and I will summarize to the list.

 Mark A. Mandel
 Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200
 320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : markdragonsys.com

Hi all:

I am going to the Native American Language Issues Institute's 14th Annual
Conference in Glorieta, New Mexico, next week. Is anybody else going?
In the flyer announcing the conference, they mention Kawaiisu as being
an endangered language in the United States. I may be wrong about this,
but I've always thought the Kawaiisu as a people have been extinct (or
whatever term is proper) for at least 100 years, and I think more. (The
Kawaiisu were from the Tehachapi/Mojave area of the Mojave Desert in
Southern California.) Am I mistaken about this? Are there still Kawaiisu
people around? Are there still speakers of the language?

Serrano is listed also. So far as I know, there is ONE remaining speaker
of Serrano -- I think that qualifies as endagered.

Any comments or observations about any of the above would be welcome:
1) any knowledge about the conference, as I never been to this one before,
2) anything on any subject about the Kawaiisu, and 3) anything on any
subject about the Serrano.

Chuck Coker
CJCokerCSUPomona.Edu

P.S.: I travel by motorcycle. Any one know how deep the snow gets between
Barstow, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico on I-40? Do I need to worry
about snow at all yet? Alternative routes might include I-10 from San
Bernardino, California to (almost) El Paso, Texas, then I-25 north to
Santa Fe; or maybe even D-2 across Mexico, from Tijuana, Baja California, to
Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua (El Paso, Texas, US), then north on I-25. Any
suggestions? (They don't make snow chains for motorcycles.)

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