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mscc.huji.ac.il>After receiving a good response to my previous postings, this is to announce the formation of a new Indo-Iranian linguistics mailing list. All those who answered the previous posting should have received a personal invitation to join. List description ============ This is a list for the discussion of Indo-Iranian linguistics. While the main focus of the list will be Vedic and Avestan, discussion of any Indo-Iranian linguistic topic will be welcome. All aspects of these languages, e.g. phonology, morphology, syntax, text linguistics, and historical and comparative linguistics may be discussed, while any other language, whether non-IE Indian, or other branches of IE, will be considered off-topic unless it is relevant in some way to Indo-Iranian. All linguistic "schools' are welcome, as long as the topic of discussion remains Indo-Iranian. To subscribe, send an empty message to indo_iranian-subscribeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
hotmail.com>Dear Editor, I have published "The Linear A and the Phaistos Disk: A Slavonic Key" HOME PAGE <http://www.openweb.ru/windows/rongo/disk.htm>;. I have published "RONGORONGO, Easter Island Writing" HOME PAGE (articles on the decipherment of the Easter Island writing system) on the World Wide Web: <http://www.openweb.ru/windows/rongo/index.htm>; (The Rapanui Chant "He Timo te Akoako": Origin and Interpretation. Rongorongo Script: Reading of Some Records. The Glyphs on the Spanish Treaty. Rongorongo: The Milky Way and Antares. "The Numerals" in the Easter Island Vocabulary: An Astronomical Report. Linguistic Evidence of Early Peruvian-Rapanui Contacts. Dr Schuhmacher's Renunciation? Bibliography). Yours sincerely, Sergei V. Rjabchikov srjabchikovMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
unagi.cis.upenn.edu>Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the Linguistic Data Consortium ************************************************ TAIWANESE PUTONGHUA SPEECH AND TRANSCRIPT CORPUS ************************************************ This set of data on Taiwanese accented Putonghua (PTH) was recorded in Taiwan from December 1994 to January 1995. Taiwanese accented PTH refers to PTH spoken by people who were born in Taiwan and whose first language is Taiwanese (Southern Min). A total of 40 speakers; ranging in age, education, birth place, and family dialect; were recorded. There were 5 two-speaker dialogues and 30 single-speaker monologues. The dialogues were about 20 minutes each and the monologues were about 10 minutes each. Dialogues were recorded on two tracks, one for each speaker. Monologues were recorded on one track. The recordings were done in ordinary, but quiet rooms. The speakers were asked in advance to speak in conversation style, without notes, on any topic they chose, or no topic at all. Most speakers spoke spontaneously and the topic drifted freely. Some speakers talked about their professional work in a rather formal way. One speaker (#20, a public health official) used notes. We consider this variation in speech style a merit of the data. The recording tools consisted of a portable DAT (Teac) which recorded at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate at 16 bits linear quantization. The microphones were AudioTechnica lapel microphones with a preamp and XLR connection to the DAT. The XLR helped low noise recordings, and the AudioTechnica provided widebandwidth, flat response over the speech range of interest, was unidirectional to minimize cross-talk, and very light in comparison with standard microphones. Both single-speaker monologues and two-speaker dialogues were recorded using this system on standard DAT tape. Before recording, all speakers read and signed the 'Informed Consent Form', which was written in Chinese and which largely followed the standard format approved by the Human Subject Committee of the University of Michigan. The form stated that the participation in the recording was entirely voluntary and that the speech may be used for linguistic teaching and research purposes. The speech data are accompanied by transcripts. The monologues have start and end time stamps. The 5 dialogues are time stamped by speaker turn. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1998 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can receive a copy of the Taiwanese Putonghua Speech and Transcript Corpus for $750. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to <ldcMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
unagi.cis.upenn.edu>Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the Linguistic Data Consortium **************************************** 1997 Spanish Broadcast News (HUB-4NE) **************************************** This corpus contains a portion of the acoustic data designated as the training set for the 1997 DARPA HUB-4 Spanish Benchmark. It contains speech and transcripts of 30 hours of broadcast news from the following sources: VOA Univision Televisa All acoustic files are in NIST SPHERE format, without compression. The sample data are 16-bit linear PCM, 16-KHz sample frequency, single channel. Most files contain 30 minutes of recorded material, and some contain 60 or 120 minutes (approximately); the sampling format requires roughly 2 megabytes (MB) per minute of recording, so the file sizes are typically around 60 MB, with some files ranging up to 120 or 240 MB. The transcripts are in SGML format, using the same markup conventions that have been applied to the other 1997 Broadcast News speech corpora (in English and Mandarin), and are transmitted by ftp, not on the cdroms with speech data. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders, this corpus is available to 1998 LDC members only. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to <ldcMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue