LINGUIST List 5.1375

Fri 02 Dec 1994

FYI: Home page, Video Update, GLS'95 on WWW, Poem, CALL Reports

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1. , home page
2. Ali Aghbar, Genie Video Update
3. Jeff Deby, GLS 1995 info on WWW
4. maire ni chiosain, Poem (Re: 5.1276 Eskimo "snow")
5. Peter White, CALL Reports

We have a home page:

Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London:

http://www/bbk.ac.uk/Departments/AppliedLinguistics/home.html

and access to the Applied Linguistics 'virtual library', which we
are maintaining:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/Departments/AppliedLinguistics/VirtualLibrary.html

Categories in the latter to date are:

PROGRAMS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
PROJECTS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS
CURRENT PAPERS
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
DATA ARCHIVES

We are interested in programs, etc that would like to establish links and also,
we would like suggestions as to how to organize the AL 'virtual library'.

Larry Selinker
l.selinkerapp-ling.bbk.ac.uk

I have received many inquiries from outside North America about a
message I posted a couple of months ago about a video program on
Genie, entitled THE SECRET OF THE WILD CHILD. The 800 number
(800-255-9424) is good only in North America. Here is the
address, phone number, and the fax number for the distributer:

WGBH
P. O. Box 2284
South Burlington, VT 05407
U.S.A.

Phone: 802 862 8881 (ask for the ordering department)
Fax No.: 804 864 9846

SECRET OF THE WILD CHILD is produced by PBS (Public Broadcasting
System) as part of the NOVA series.

Information regarding the Georgetown Linguistics Society's GLS 1995:
Developments in Discourse conference (17-19 Feb 1995) is now available on
the World-Wide Web from the Georgetown University Linguistics Home Page,
at the URL:

http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/gu_lx.html

Currently we have a list of plenary speakers, accommodation and
transportation information, and general information about the
conference. The page will be udated regularly to include a full list of
presenters, scheduling information and more. If you need information
that's not on there yet, please don't hesitate to contact GLS at:

internet: glsguvax.georgetown.edu
bitnet: glsguvax.bitnet
voice: 202-687-6166

--

Jeff Deby
debyjgusun.georgetown.edu
Georgetown University

Message 4: Poem (Re: 5.1276 Eskimo "snow")

As a footnote to the recent exchanges, linguists may be interested
in the following short poem by the Dublin poet, Aiden Mathews,
entitled The Death of Irish:
 The tide gone out for good,
 Thirty-one words for seaweed
 Whiten on the foreshore
(Reproduced on p.1428 of The Filed Day Anthology of Irish Writing and
currently on display on the Dublin Metro as part of a poetry-for-the-
people campaign).
I have not enquired what the thirty-one words might be. But then are
we not dealing here with feelings rather than facts?

Seamus O Ciosain
c/o mairenicirlearn.bitnet

The National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia Ltd. (NLLIA)
Language and Technology Centre (LATTICE)

COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) REPORTS are now available on
gopher. These have been updated to October 1994.

They can be obtained on the gopher gopher.cltr.uq.oz.au
 ftparchive
 The publically accessible archives
 NLLIA
 LATTICE
 Call-reports

All files are in text format and are reports from the NLLIA Database
System's Resources Database.

The languages represented are:
 Amharic
 Ancient Greek
 Arabic
 Bengali
 Chinese
 English
 French
 German
 Greek (Modern)
 Indonesian
 Italian
 Japanese
 Korean
 Latin
 Russian
 Spanish

For further information contact:

Peter White
Director, LATTICE
Centre for Language Teaching and Research
The University of Queensland, Qld 4072 Australia
Tel: +61 7 365-6893; Fax: +61 7 365-7077
Email: peterwlingua.cltr.uq.oz.au