LINGUIST List, May 1994

May 1994 Issues

5.505 Sum: Syntax books
1. Ali Aghbar, Summary: Syntax Books
5.506 Qs: Transformations, Pidgins, Functional load, Hiberno-English
1. , Query: Chomsky on Transformations and D(eep) Structures
2. , German based pidgins and creoles
3. , Functional load: consonants vs. vowels
4. "Joseph F. Eska", /t/ in Hiberno-English
5.507 Sum: /s/ -
1. Dan Alford, Summary: /s/ -
5.508 FYI: Corrections, Language testing list, Fun
1. Peter Lasersohn, SALT address correction
2. Mary Ellen Ryder, Ulster is not a County
3. "Leslie Z. Morgan", ltest-l (language testing list)
4. alan harris, a laugh a day etc.
5.509 Misc: This & that, Go-past
1. John E. Koontz, Re: 5.480 Sum: This & that
2. Ronan_Collis, Re: 5.480 Sum: This & that
3. Manuel Perez Saldanya, go-past
5.510 Qs: PC software, Language Acquisition, MAC software
1. Marta Carulla, specification of my question
2. , Query: Books on Cross-linguistic Language Acquisition
3. , Query: Some things that don't make sense
4. Dr Judy L Delin, Mac Linguistics Software
5.511 All: Books Available for Discussion: Child Lang Acquisition
1. ,
5.512 TOC: Reading and Writing
1. ,
5.513 Qs: Count nouns, False faults, Farsi, Spanish immersion program
1. Gregory Jewell, +/-countable
2. "Karen Robblee 814 863-8963,", False faults
3. , Farsi word processor
4. Joachim Knuf, Help with partial Spanish immersion program
5.514 Qs: Metaphor, Functionalist problems, Translation, Developmental
1. Lynn Lesueur, metaphor
2. Johanna Rubba, Functionalist problems
3. Hr. Reinke, evaluation of integrated translation systems
4. , developmental linguistics
5.515 Misc: Cognitive, Flat earth, Bubba
1. Richard Hudson UCL, signs
2. Jacques Guy, Was "mainstream", now "flat-earth" (New Scientist, 23/4/94)
3. benji wald, Re: 5.458 Bubba
5.516 Misc: Dia- vs. idio-lectal allophony, This & that
1. H.Stephen Straight, Q: Dia- vs. idio-lectal allophony?
2. Angus Grieve-Smith, Shtrange speech
3. Steven Schaufele, Re: 5.509 'this' vs. 'that'
4. , Re: 5.509 This & that
5.517 TOC: LANGUAGE 70/2 (June, 1994)
1. ,
5.518 Review: Saussure
1. , reviews
5.519 Qs: Mathematics, Intonation, Word freq, Conjoining nominals
1. Margaret M. Fleck, mathematical English
2. Loren Allen Billings, Intonation in multiply fronted wh constituents in Slavic
3. Ron Smyth, word frequencies
4. R.Y.L. TANG, Conjoining of Nominal Elements
5.520 Disc: Greenberg - Simulation of chance resemblance
1. Jacques Guy, Greenberg: simulation of chance resemblance
5.521 Disc: Greenberg - Simulation with semantic shift
1. Jacques Guy, Greenberg: simulation of chance resemblance
5.522 Jobs: Japan, University of Potsdam, Budapest, Utrecht University
1. YUKIE HORIBA, position in JPN
2. , processing position at the University of Potsdam
3. Jeffrey Goldberg, Visitor Job in Budapest
4. , +0000 (GMT)
5.523 TOC: Jeal, Diachronica, vol 11 no 1, Spring 1994
1. Anton van Kempen, Table of Contents JEAL
2. Sheila, TOC: Diachronica, vol 11 no 1, Spring 1994
5.524 Sum: Computational models of parameter setting, Black holes
1. Alison Henry, Computational models of parameter setting
2. , black holes: summary
5.525 Sum: Origin of Case systems
1. "William J. Griffiths", Sum: Origin of Case systems
5.526 Qs: E-mail language, Monographs, Agni, OCR for Cyrillic
1. Shannon M Walbran, E-mail language itself
2. Ali Aghbar, Q: Language Awareness Monogrphs
3. "Williams J. Ekou", Agni language
4. , OCR packages for Cyrillic
5.527 Disc: Accents, Estuary English
1. , Re: 5.497 Accents
2. , accents (Estuary English)
3. Paul Kerswill, Estuary English (fwd)
5.528 Confs: International Conference on Language in Ireland
1. , Conference details
5.530 Sum: Equative comparison
1. Martin Haspelmath, Sum: equative comparison
5.531 Qs: Graduate programs, Metaphor, Turkic writing systems, Bridge
1. , Q: graduate programs
2. Lynn Lesueur, metaphor
3. "STEVE SEEGMILLER", Query: Turkic Writing Systems
4. Mike Hammond, bridge language
5.532 FYI: ONE-YEAR M.SC. COURSE
1. Paul Mc Kevitt, T
5.541 Disc: Greenburg simulation
1. Jacques Guy, Greenberg, simulation, significance
5.542 Calls: LINGUISTICS AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES, WECOL
1. Jorge F. Pique', Call for Papers/LINGUISTICS AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
2. Western Conference on Linguistics, WECOL final call for abstract
5.543 Qs: Voice Variability in Speech Synthesis
1. Wolfgang Hess, Voice Variability in Speech Synthesis
5.544 Disc: Greenberg
1. Ecological Linguistics,Anderson,PRT, Sem change, Greenberg
2. Jacques Guy, More Fun with Greenberg
5.545 Confs: ICCS'94 Advance Program
1. Cecilia Kullman, ICCS'94 Advance Program
5.546 Qs: Eng dictionary, Acquisition, Feature geometry, Scrambling
1. Richard Ogden, American English dictionary
2. , Acquisition of present perfect tense by Turkish speakers
3. Michael M T Henderson, Feature geometry and acquisition
4. lee, Long-Distance Scrambling
5.547 Qs: Translation, Cognition verbs, Converting text, Complexity
1. Ellen Ricca, Translation Software for English -
2. "Rembrandt Klopper - UZulu, Umlazi Campu, Verbs of Cognition: seeing, believing, knowing, wishing ...
3. mark, Converting Japanese text from Macintosh to DOS
4. , Query: Complexity of Language
5.548 Qs: Word & Letter frequencies, Voiceless nasals, Clicks
1. , Q:English word frequencies
2. Lauri Carlson, Letter frequencies in running text for European languages
3. "Bill, "Voiceless" nasals
4. "Bill, Clicks in Khoisan, Sandawe-Hadzapi and Zulu-Xhosa
5.549 Calls: THE THIRD KENTUCKY CONFERENCE ON NARRATIVE
1. Joachim Knuf, Repeat Call & Registration, KY Conference on Narrative
5.550 Qs: Dialect, Foreign language competency, Proper nouns, Typing
1. , 3rd singular _be's_ for _is_
2. T.F. Mills, statistics on foreign language competency?
3. , proper nouns and phonological rules
4. , "assimilation" in typing
5.551 Qs: Macedonian, Killing vocab, Irony ;-) online, Environment
1. lynne murphy, macedonian help needed
2. claudia brugman, Q: 'killing' vocabulary
3. , Irony ;-) Online
4. sharon shelly, Query: Language and/ of environmental studies?
5.552 Jobs: Chair in Formal Linguistics, Boston University
1. Paul Bennett, Chair in Formal Linguistics
2. Carol Neidle, job opening - Boston University
5.553 Disc: E-mail language
1. "Simeon J. Yates", Re: 5.526 Qs: E-mail language, Monographs, Agni, OCR for Cyrill
5.554 Sum: Classroom Corpora, Gender & Translation
1. Simon Williams, Summary: Classroom Corpora
2. David Silva, Summary Available: Gender & Translation
5.556 Qs: Russian Syllable, Graduate programs, Colloquium, Discourse
1. Martin Barry, Russian Syllable Structure/Phonotactics (Query)
2. U of Kansas Linguistics Dept, Graduate program numbers
3. , Semi-virtual colloquium needed
4. Michael Newman, query about educational discourse analysis
5.557 Confs: Langues et Grammaire 1 Conference PARIS JUNE 23-25
1. , Langues et Grammaire 1 Conference, PARIS JUNE 23-25
5.558 Misc: Binding & coreference, E-mail language
1. Steven Schaufele, Re: 5.533 Misc: Binding & coreference
2. benji wald, Re: 5.553 E-mail language
5.559 Qs: OED on line, Kalabari speaker needed, Klang
1. "STEVE SEEGMILLER", Query: OED on line?
2. , Kalabari speaker needed
3. David Prager Branner, Klang association
5.560 Confs: SECOND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON IMMERSION
1. Anita Nuopponen, Immersion Conference
5.561 Calls: Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
1. Artificial Intelligence Conference 1994, Re: 3rd CFP: Seventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial
5.562 Calls: AI'94 STRUCTURED SEQUENCE TUTORIALS, ESCOL 94
1. Artificial Intelligence Conference 1994, CFP (AI'94) STRUCTURED SEQUENCE TUTORIALS
2. Stanley Dubinsky, Last call for papers, ESCOL 94
5.563 Calls: CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE, AI'94
1. Richard Epstein, CFP (AI'94) POST-GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION
2. Artificial Intelligence Conference 1994, CFP (AI'94) POST-GRADUATE STUDENT SESSION
5.564 Confs: Athabaskan Language Conference, ICHL Conference
1. Bill Poser, 00
2. Kersti Bo"rjars, ICHL Conference
5.565 Sum: Emphatic Reflexives
1. , JST
5.566 Sum: Tone change
1. Enid Wai-Ching Mok, Sum:tone change
5.567 TOC: Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology
1. ,
5.568 Books: Ogden, Syntax
1. ,
5.569 FYI: In Memoriam: Paul L. Garvin
1. , In Memoriam Paul L. Garvin
5.570 Calls: Field reports/Endangered Lgs: Session at LSA 95
1. "Anthony C. Woodbury", Call: Field reports/Endangered Lgs. Session at LSA '95
5.571 FYI: Optimality Mailing List; History of Language Association
1. Information Retrieval, NEW: Optimality Mailing List
2. , Melbourne Association for the History of Language (MAHL)
5.572 Disc: A linguist's nightmare
1. Lila R. Gleitman, worst nightmare
5.573 Qs: Feminism; Tense-aspect; Dialectology; Translation; Discourse
1. A E Goeta, Language and feminism
2. , Tense/Aspect (English adverbials; French)
3. , info on dialectology courses
4. Linguistic Group, Translation
5. Adam Karpinski, discourse analysis
5.574 Qs: HIV ed; Tibetan; Pragmatics; Wakashan; French; Advertising
1. Luiz Carlos Souza, HIV/AIDS education programmes for deaf communities
2. Picus Sizhi Ding, Q: Tibetan fonts
3. , The Pragmatics of Teacher Directives
4. , North Wakashan Comparative Root List
5. "l. yee", French toddler lang. acquisition
6. Adam Karpinski, advertising
5.575 Disc: Reply to Irons' review of LAMSAS Handbook
1. "William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.", Reply to Irons' review of LAMSAS Handbook
5.576 FYI: Sinalizando contra HIV/AIDS
1. Luiz Carlos Souza, Sinalizando contra HIV/AIDS: Prevencao e tratamento para surdos
5.577 FYI: Turkish; Feminism & Linguistics
1. Pierre Pica, Re: Turkish bibliography
2. A E Goeta, bibliography
5.578 FYI: SCHOLAR
1. Joseph Raben, Release CW of SCHOLAR
5.579 FYI: Obituary: Paul Garvin
1. Matthew Dryer, Obituary for Paul Garvin
5.580 Sum: Romanian
1. Angus Grieve-Smith, Sum: Romanian
5.581 FYI: Harvard Linguistics Department
1. , Harvard Ling. Dept.
5.582 Jobs: Chinese computational; General
1. Chu-Ren Huang, post-doctoral position in Chinese Compuational Linguistics
2. J Local, Temp linguistics job at York, UK
5.583 Sum: Ainu and Ryukuan
1. ABE Hideko Nornes, Ainu and Ryukuan Languages
5.585 Qs: International English; Vocatives; Undergraduates; French
1. Gwyn Williams, International culture
2. Knud Lambrecht, VOCATIVES
3. "Mao LuMing", RE: undergraduate linguistics program
4. "Marie-Therese Broncksaux", query
5.586 Qs: Attachment; EPG; Child language; Stemmer
1. , Cross-linguistic attachment variations
2. James M Scobbie, Query: EPG, Affricates and Language Acquisition
3. James M Scobbie, Query: non-instrumental work on affricate acquistion
4. "Y. Shum", Good stemmer
5.587 Qs: Lists; Texts; AGR; History of Lx; Virtual language
1. , Discussion Lists
2. "STEVE SEEGMILLER", Q: Syntax, semantics texts
3. Roberto Zamparelli, Agr with Adj modifiers
4. MARC PICARD, History of linguistics course
5. Mari Rhydwen, virtual speech communities/language maintenance/Welsh
5.588 Disc: Linguistics and popular publications
1. benji wald, Re: 5.603 The treatment of language in popular publications
5.589 Sum: German pidgins
1. , Summary on pidgin german
5.590 Sum: Klang association
1. David Prager Branner, Summary: Klang association
5.591 Disc: Romanian spelling changes
1. H.Stephen Straight, Romanian spelling changes
5.592 Sum: Mac-PC conversion of Japanese text
1. mark, Summ: Mac-PC conversion of Japanese text
5.593 Qs: Chinese/Korean; Letter frequency; Prescription; Italian
1. ABE Hideko Nornes, Language and Gender in Chinese and Korean
2. Penni Sibun, Re: 5.548 Letter frequency information
3. Michael Newman, Attacks on Prescription
4. Gregory Ward, informants sought
5.594 Qs: Land, Bengali/Assamese/Manipuri fonts, Research, Anaphora
1. Roadkill on the information superhighway, Land and its historical meaning
2. , Bengali/Assamese/Manipuri fonts
3. Barbara Snyder, Professional Research - Viable service for you?
4. Dan Hardt, backwards anaphora
5.595 Confs: LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SUBJECT
1. "Dr. K.N. Simms", Conference Announcement
5.596 Confs: Neurolinguistics Conference
1. Stefan Werner, Neurolinguistics Conference
5.597 Disc: Children's knowledge of binding and reference
1. ANDREW BARSS, Children's knowledge of binding and reference
5.598 Calls: Natural Language Processing
1. Artificial Intelligence Conference 1994, CFPP (AI'94) WORKSHOPS
5.599 Calls: Semantics & Linguistic Theory
1. MANFRED KRIFKA, SALT 5 - Semantics & Linguistic Theory
5.600 Confs: Topological foundations of cognitive science
1. SUNY at Buffalo Cognitive Science Announ, TOPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
5.601 Confs: Speech and language
1. Paul Mc Kevitt, T
5.602 Calls: Lexical Workshop in Beijing
1. chengming, Post-COLING 94 Lexical Workshop in Beijing -- Last Call for Papers
5.603 Disc: The treatment of language in popular publications
1. Dr M Sebba, The treatment of language in popular publications
5.604 Jobs: Dutch, German, Spanish, Swedish
1. Derek Gross, Jobs for freelance linguists (Dutch, Ger., Span., Swed.) - Boston
5.605 Disc: A linguist's nightmare
1. , Re: 5.572 A linguist's nightmare
5.606 Disc: Sound symbolism
1. Dan Alford, Klang association, Whorf & Fetzer Dialogues
2. Penny Lee, Re: 5.590 Sum: Klang association
5.607 Disc: Language laws
1. Stephen P Spackman, Re: 5.534 Language laws
5.608 FYI: New list for English and Modern Language Graduate Students
1. Louise Mowder, NEW: E-GRAD - English and Modern Language Graduate Students
5.609 Sum: Graduate programs focused on publishing
1. , Sum: Grad. programs
5.610 Qs: Syntax & style; do-imperative; culture; e-lists
1. Mark Dras, syntax and style
2. "Ellen F. Prince", query re do-imperative
3. Geoffrey Russom, Linguistics and cultural studies
4. , Q: List of foreign language e-lists
5.611 Qs: Language policy in S. Africa; Sleep recording
1. David Silva, Q: S Africa & Lang Policy
2. "Dr. Michal Ephratt", advice sleep talk recording kit
5.612 Confs: 5th Log. & Lang. Symposium in Hungary
1. Jeffrey Goldberg, 5th Log. & Lang. Symposium in Hungary
5.613 FYI: Language e-lists, Summer language courses
1. Suzanne E Kemmer, list of language e-lists
2. "George Fowler h(\n, Summer language courses
3. "George Fowler h(\n, Summer language courses
5.614 Jobs: French ling, Psycholing/semantics/morphology
1. , French linguistics
2. David Michaels, Job Announcement UConn Linguistics
5.615 Calls: Language Engineering on the Information Highway
1. Celia Roniotes ILSP, Preliminary Call for Participation
5.617 Confs: Research Seminar, Cog Sci Summer Institute, Symposium
1. Mr S N Gieve, Research Seminar
2. "William J. Rapaport", Cog Sci Summer Institute: WORKSHOPS
3. , announcement