LINGUIST List 9.181

Sat Feb 7 1998

Qs: IPAKielSeven,English Corpus,Locality,Spanish

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

Directory

1. Rebecca Larche Moreton, IPAKielSeven
2. Maria Jose Garcia Vizcaino, Spoken English Corpus
3. Frederick Newmeyer, Locality and mental operations
4. Jovan & Jelena Filipovic, Spanish word frequency dictionaries

Dear Linguists:

I would like to correspond briefly with anyone who has had experience
using the LaserIPA font IPAKielSeven, on a Mac with System 7.l with
Microsoft Word 5.la, or with System 7.5.5 with Microsoft Word 6.0.1.

Rebecca Larche Moreton
301 South Ninth Street
Oxford, MS 38655

<mlrlmolemiss.edu>

I am trying to find an American (or British) English Spoken corpus (1
million words aprox.) with a wide range of discourse: radio/tv
interviews, political discourse, friends chats, educational lectures,
etc. Do you know of any corpus with these features? Where and how can
I get a hold of it?

Thanks a lot in advance. 
 
 Marma Josi Garcma Vizcamno (Spain)


Message 3: Locality and mental operations
Date: Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:24:19 -0800 (PST)

From: Frederick Newmeyer <fjnu.washington.edu>

Subject: Locality and mental operations


Intrinsic properties of grammars are often attributed to some feature
of cognition in general. For example, a number of scholars have argued
that the structure-dependence of grammatical rules and their cyclic
application simply exemplify the way the human mind structures and
processes ALL complex information, whether grammatical or otherwise.

When it comes to LOCALITY conditions on rules, however, the consensus
of those who would attribute to them an external explanation is that
their origins lie in language USE. That is, the effects of principles
such as Subjacency, the ECP, and other locality conditions are said to
be attributable to the reduction of processing complexity in parsing.

What I find interesting is that these same locality restrictions
restrict COVERT operations as well as overt ones. Using GB
terminology, it is widely accepted, for example, that the ECP affects
interpretation. And in at least some languages it is clear that
Subjacency affects the interpretation of the scope of wh-type
elements, even if there is no movement. Indeed, in many OV languages
there is little if any overt movement, yet one can show that the same
principles constrain interpretation that constrain overt displacement
of elements in movement-rich VO languages.

What I am wondering is why this should be so. On-line parsing
pressures could hardly be responsible. What could an 'external
explanation' for this phenomenon be? Does anybody say that mental
operations involving structured representations are subject to
'locality conditions'? If so, who?

I'll summarize if there is enough interest.

Fritz Newmeyer
fjnu.washington.edu

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Message 4: Spanish word frequency dictionaries
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 08:34:04 +0200

From: Jovan & Jelena Filipovic <jfilipovicsezampro.yu>

Subject: Spanish word frequency dictionaries



Hello, I was wondering if anybody on the LINGUIST list could help me
in locating bibliographical references regarding Spanish word
frequency dictionaries/lists? I would really appreciate any
information regarding this matter.

Jelena Filipovic
Dept. of Spanish language and linguistics
College of Philology - Belgrade University
Belgrade, YU

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