LINGUIST List 6.1644

Wed Nov 22 1995

Qs: Aphasia, Irish, Tagging, Arabic, Batch

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. Stanley Dubinsky, Q: Broca's aphasia and ASL
2. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ciar=E1n?= Mc Carthy, Irish Socio-linguistics
3. Joakim Nivre, Q: POS tagging of spoken language transcriptions
4. , query on Arabic complements
5. , ILS F0 Batch

A student in my introduction to linguistics course asked a question
today that I could not answer, but would like to be able to.
She wanted to know how Broca's aphasia affects the language of signing
adults. I assume that this aphasia does affect the syntax of ASL,
however I was not sure whether it affects articulation. I.e., does
Broca's area have the same control over manual articulation of ASL
as it does over oral articulation of spoken language, and does damage
to this area result in analogous articulatory difficulty for a
signing patient (e.g. difficulty in producing complex ASL gestures,
where there is no corresponding deficit in voluntary control of
the same muscles).
Thanks,
Stan Dubinsky

* Stanley Dubinsky E-mail: dubinskysc.edu *
* Linguistics Program phone: 803-777-2056 *
* U of South Carolina fax: 803-777-9064 *
* Columbia, SC 29208 *

 Does anyone know if there are any on-going socio-linguistic
surveys of Hiberno-English (particularly Dublin area) in progress, or any
that are complete, but as yet unpublished? Even better, if you're in a
university,(aren't we all?) which is outside Ireland or Britain, and you
know of any unpublished dissertations/theses on this subject gathering
dust, could you send me the bibliographical details? Many thanks!
 Not really expecting any replies...
 cmccartiol.ie

Ciar=E1n Mc Carthy
Applied Linguistic Solutions Ireland Ltd.

usually at cmccartiol.ie
or alternatively maybe at: (if the college computers ever work...)
cmccart2mail.tcd.ie

I am interested in any work (published or unpublished) on
part-of-speech tagging of spoken language transcriptions.
I am especially interested in the problems of adapting
taggers developed for written language to the demands of
(transcribed) spoken language. The only thing I have found
so far is a brief mention of these problems in a description
(on the Web) of the annotation of the British National Corpus
(by Roger Garside). I will be grateful for any information
pertaining to this area.

Best regards,

Joakim Nivre

Department of Linguistics
Goteborg University
S-412 98 Goteborg
Sweden
joakimling.gu.se

I am sending this message on behalf of one of my doctoral students
comparing English and Arabic complement sentences. Does anyone
know of references to Arabic complement constructions (theses or books)?
Please reply directly to me , and I will summarize the responses
later.
Thank you for your cooperation
Salem GhazalI.

Salem Ghazali Tel +216 1 787 757 / 288 805
IRSIT, BP 212 Fax +216 1 787 827
2 Rue Ibn Nadime Telex 14570 IRSIT-TN
1082 Cite Mahrajane Internet: ghazaliTunisia.EU.net
Tunis, Tunisia

Does anyone have sufficient experience with ILS signal processing package
do know how to write code for a batch job to extract fundamental frequency?

Peter Ross
Thai/Linguistics
http://online.anu.edu.au/thaionline
Australian National University