LINGUIST List 8.1647

Mon Nov 17 1997

Qs: Fonts, Lexical Databases, Diphthongs, Papago

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

Directory

1. Mark Mandel, parallel Serbian-Croatian fonts
2. Michael Ullman, non-English lexical databases and frequency counts
3. Chris Golston, Diphthongs
4. Laura Moll-Collopy, Mathiot's "A Dictionary of Papago Usage"

Can anyone point me to fonts (for Windows) in Serbian and Croatian
that use corresponding character mappings, so that any text in one
script will be appropriately displayed in the other language simply by
switching fonts? The closest match I know of still has two characters
mismatched.

If I find anything, I'll post the info here.

 Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist : markdragonsys.com 
 Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200 
 320 Nevada St., Newton, MA 02160, USA : http://www.dragonsys.com/

We are looking for lexical databases (ideally with orthographic,
phonological, morphological, and syntactic information, but any subset
of that is better than nothing) and for frequency lists in several
languages other than English, including Italian, French, Russian,
Polish, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu. If you know of any, I
would very much appreciate it if you could point me towards them.

Michael Ullman
Email: michaelgiccs.georgetown.edu



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 Michael Ullman
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 Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences (GICCS)
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I'm looking for any language that contrasts rising and falling
diphthongs: [ao] vs. [oa], [ai] vs. [ia], [ua] vs. [au]. I'll post a
summary of the findings as soon as I have them.

Please reply to <chrisgcsufresno.edu> directly.

Thanks,

Chris Golston

Department of Linguistics, M/S 92
California State University Fresno
Fresno CA 93740

Office: (209) 278-4895
Home: (209) 292-7049

I am a graduate student at the University of Arizona and I am writing
my dissertation on the Tohono O'odham language. I'm currently using
the library's copy of Madeleine Mathiot's "A Dictionary of Papago
Usage", but I would love to own my own copy. The problem is that it
is out of print. I would like to buy a copy of this dictionary if any
of you would be willing to part with your copy, or know where I could
find one. The full citation is:

Mathiot, Madeleine. 1973. A Dictionary of Papago Usage, Vols. 8/1 &
8/2 of the Language Science Monographs series. Bloomington: Indiana
University Publications.

Thanks in advance.

Laura Moll-Collopy