LINGUIST List 7.499

Wed Apr 3 1996

Qs: Font for MS Word, LSP phraseology, DAT recordings

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

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1. "Janet Xing", Linguistic font for MS Word on PC
2. Beatriz Mendez Cendon, LSP Phraseology
3. Tom Klingler, DAT recordings

Dear Netters,
 I am looking for linguistic fonts for MS Word on PC.
It will be greatly appreciated if any of you can tell me
where to find and purchase them.

Best regard,
Janet Xing
University of Vermont
zxingmoose.uvm.edu

I am an assitant professor of English at Valladolid University. I am
doing research into phraseology in the field of LSP. Could someone
facilitate me some bibliographical references in this field? Thank
you.

I recently began making field recordings in DAT format using a Tascam
DA-P1 portable recorder. Just last week a colleague of mine who also
does linguistic field work told that he had decided against making
digital recordings because, he claimed, they distort speakers' voices.
Although I hadn't noticed this before, his comment prompted me to
compare analog and digital recordings I'd made of the same speaker. I
was surprised and somewhat disconcerted to find that there was,
indeed, a pretty noticeable difference between the two. I'm not sure
just how to describe the difference, but in a general way I'd say the
speaker's voice sounded less natural on the DAT recording, and
somewhat lower than I recall it to have been.

I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else who has used DAT recordings has
noticed this problem. Please reply directly to me, and I'll post a summary
if there's sufficient response.

Tom Klingler


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Department of French and Italian
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 862-3120 (office)
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