LINGUIST List 8.759

Tue May 20 1997

Qs: Grammar lab, Tone, Cultural competence

Editor for this issue: Susan Robinson <suelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. hans-joerg tiede, Grammar Lab Software
2. Patrick C. Ryan, Tonal Correlations with Parts of Speech
3. A L Sellami, (Inter)cultural competence

I'm in the process of preparing to teach a class in mathematical
linguistics and would like to use software to do so. Through the
world-wide-web linguistics library, I found four Macintosh grammar
labs, which were developed at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I
was wondering if anyone on this list has ever used these applications
for teaching and, if so, could tell me about any experience with them.

Thank you,
Hans-Joerg Tiede
Indiana University

Dear Sinologists:

I am wondering if anyone has ever attempted to correlate tones and
speech parts in Chinese.

I have the offhand impression that the falling tone occurs
inordinately often with verbs with a simple non-diphthongal vocalic
nucleus.

Am I wrong?

Pat
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Dear all recipients,

I would be very grateful to you all if you could let me know about any
test, set of questions, questionnaire related to cultural awareness or
competence.
Any ideas or comments about how to design a test on foreign language
learners' cultural competence will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
anticipation for your cooperation. 
Yours sincerely,

A.latif