LINGUIST List 8.1299

Fri Sep 12 1997

Qs: Grammar in Schools, Corpora, Internet

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Dick Hudson, grammar in schools
2. Mondorf Britta, Re: Computer Corpora of Spoken Spanish and Spoken German
3. Agnes Gruz, Qu: Language use on Internet

I'd like to know of any national (or smaller) educational systems in
which the normal curriculum (most probably in first-language classes)
includes the grammatical analysis of sentences. By `grammatical
analysis' I mean any of the following:

- the classification of words (as noun, verb, etc),
- the idenfification of grammatical functions (subject, object, etc),
- diagramming of sentence structure.

Also:
- At what age does it start?
- How successful is it?

I'll summarise back to the list if there's anything to summarise.

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Richard (Dick) Hudson
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT
work phone: +171 419 3152; work fax: +171 383 4108
email: dickling.ucl.ac.uk
web-sites:
 home page = http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/home.htm
 unpublished papers available by ftp = ....uk/home/dick/papers.htm

Dear Colleagues,

Does anyone know of computer corpora (if possible coded prosodically)
of spoken Spanish and/or German?

Please contact Mondorfstud-mailer.uni-marburg.de

Thank you, Britta Mondorf	

Dear Linguists!

I am looking for information about research and publications that deal
with language use on the Internet. Please reply to my address
wmediaalgonet.se.

Thank you in advance!

Agnes Gruz
Lund University, Sweden