LINGUIST List 5.411

Sat 09 Apr 1994

Qs: They, Computational Arabic, IPA to ASCII, Mac fonts

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1. Kon Kuiper, Singular 'they'
2. , Computational Analysis of Arabic
3. Grzesiek Staniak, IPA to ASCII
4. , Chinese Characters for the Macintosh

One of our graduates not on e-mail is working on 'singular they', i.e. the
use of they with singular antecedent. She is interested particularly in
cases where the gender of the antecedent is specified, e.g. the word 'boy'.
She would be interested in knowing if there is other work going on in this
topic and if there are collections of data pertaining to it. All help
gratefully received.
Kon Kuiper

May I get information or contact with the persons who interest in:

 1) computational analysis of Arabic morphology
 2) Automatic Arabic - English translation?


 Dr. Jerzy Lacina
 A. Mickiewicz University
 Dept. of Middle and Near Eastern Studies
 Poznan - Poland
 e-mail: LACINAPLPUAM11

Greetings,

Does anybody know how to represent the IPA phonetic alphabet in the ASCII code?
I'm writing quite a lot of letters now about phonology and have to use transcri
iption quite often in them, so that my own provisional inventions do not suffic
e. Are there any standards of such representation? Are you aware of any files c
oncerning them that I could download? I'm interested in the whole of IPA signs,
 even the more exotic ones.

Thanks for help. Please write to the address below.


Grzesiek Staniak
IRC nicknames: gs, gips
<kulhumplumcs11.bitnet>
<kulhumplumcs11.umcs.lublin.pl>

I wonder if anyone might know of any good packages for printing Chinese
characters on the Macintosh. I've come across a package by the Taiwanese
company Chiyi ("qiyi" in pinyin), but the characters are rather oddly shaped
and somewhat jagged. I've seen a mainland package for the IBM that's quite
good, but I don't know what it's called or whether there is a Mac version. I'd
be very grateful if someone can tell me.

Wenchao Li
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford