LINGUIST List 7.1075

Thu Jul 25 1996

Qs: Chinese, Lg arts ed, Engl phonology, Bangani

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdartam2000.tamu.edu>

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1. "F.Baube(tm)", Chinese Character Stroke Data ?
2. Johanna Rubba, Query: CA language arts
3. mortega, English phonology
4. Martin Haspelmath, Q: Bangani (India)

I am looking for a data base (in electronic form) of Chinese
characters, giving (as a minimum) the strokes they contain and their
order of drawing. Additional information might be their approximate
X/Y location within the given character.

Preferably this material would be in the public domain.

Can anyone point me to such data ?

Fred Baube
fredkirjasto.kaarina.fi

Greetings!

I am directing this message primarily to other linguists/people
interested in language education in California. I am wondering if
anyone has taken the opportunity to inspect the materials being
offered by numerous publishers for adoption in the language arts
programs of the California school system (K-8). I have inspected them
and written an evaluative response to the State Dept. of Ed., and
would like to share opinions/ideas with others.

Please direct your responses to me personally. I don't want to burden
the list with local issues (unless people would like a general
discussion on linguistics and language arts, which I would be happy to
engage in).

Thank you.

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Johanna Rubba	Assistant Professor, Linguistics ~
English Department, California Polytechnic State University ~
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ~
Tel. (805)-756-2184 E-mail: jrubbaoboe.aix.calpoly.edu ~
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I am working on the acquisition of the English phonological system by
native speakers of Spanish, mainly on the segmental aspects. I would
like to know if there are any tests, papers that focus in the
acquisition process of different patterns and their interaction. Thank
you for your help. Marta Ortega mortegaindiana.edu

Can anyone provide information on Bangani, an Indo-European language
of India that is said to be of non-Indo-Iranian origin, or at least
incorporate a lexical layer of kentum (non-satem) words?
 Bangani was apparently first described by Klaus Peter Zoller in
Muenchner Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 1988, where he noted a large
number of evidently Indo-European words that cannot be regarded as
Indo-Iranian, e.g. kooNtia 'hundreds' (cf. Sanskrit sata-), gombo
'tooth' (cf. Sanskrit jambha-).
 Has any additional work on Bangani appeared, and have the
consequences of Zoller's discovery for Indo-European studies been
discussed?

Thanks,
Martin Haspelmath (Free University of Berlin)