LINGUIST List 9.281

Wed Feb 25 1998

Qs: Ling Club, Portuguese, W. Tarangan, McGurk

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  1. Lynne Murphy, undergrad linguistics club
  2. Maria da Graca d"Orey, Sexism in Portuguese/Grammatical Gender
  3. Seok-Chae Rhee, West Tarangan
  4. James T. Myers, McGurk effect video...?

Message 1: undergrad linguistics club

 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:35:55 +0000
From: Lynne Murphy <M_Lynne_Murphybaylor.edu>
Subject: undergrad linguistics club

hello all--

my undergraduate linguistics students are interested in forming a
linguistics club. they have many ideas about what they'd like to do,
such as to inform people about how linguistics enriches one' life, to
tutor esl students, to show films and invite speakers on language
themes, etc.

they would like to know whether other universities have linguistics
clubs (as opposed to linguistics graduate student societies, which
have different concerns). they'd like to get in touch with other
universities' students in order to share ideas.

any info would be greatly appreciated. send responses to me and i'll
pass them on.

best,
lynne murphy
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M. Lynne Murphy
Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Department of English
Baylor University
PO Box 97404
Waco, TX 76798
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Message 2: Sexism in Portuguese/Grammatical Gender

 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 98 18:29:04 -0900
From: Maria da Graca d"Orey <mgdoreyibm.net>
Subject: Sexism in Portuguese/Grammatical Gender


I will be writing my honours thesis (Department of
Linguistics/University of New England/Australia) on sexism in
Portuguese. I am finding it very difficult to access material done
in/on Portuguese in this particular area and I would be incredibly
GRATEFUL if someone could help me with references. I am a native
speaker of Portuguese but I also speak/read Spanish, French, German -
and English (of course), so I am flexible. Also I haven't narrowed
down the topic as yet so I am interested in everything that is (even
remotely) related to grammatical gender issues and (other)
manifestations of sexism in Romance languages.

Thankyou!

Maria da Graca 
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mgdoreyibm.net (Maria da Graca d"Orey)
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Message 3: West Tarangan

 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:59:01 -0600 (CST)
From: Seok-Chae Rhee <s-rheecogsci.uiuc.edu>
Subject: West Tarangan


Hi everyone,

Can anybody point me to whereabouts of Richard Nivens who did
fieldwork on West Tarangan. I once had his eaddress but I cannot get
in touch with him at that address. Direction to any previous work on
that language will be greatly appreciated too.

Thanks for any help.

scrhee

Seok-Chae Rhee		
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
217-244-3063(FLB), 333-1501(ASX), 351-1189(H)
s-rheecogsci.uiuc.edu
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Message 4: McGurk effect video...?

 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:02:08 +0800 (CST)
From: James T. Myers <lngmyersccunix.ccu.edu.tw>
Subject: McGurk effect video...?


Does anyone know if there is a video offered for sale that includes a
demo of the "McGurk effect" (e.g. audio has "ba", video shows face
articulating "ga", but observer perceives "da")??

James Myers
Graduate Institute of Linguistics
National Chung Cheng University
Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621
TAIWAN, ROC
Email: lngmyersccunix.ccu.edu.tw
Phone: 886-5-242-8251
Fax: 886-5-272-1654
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