It is widely believed that linguistic theories and information technology have considerably influenced foreign language education. However, the collaboration of these three domains has not brought about new scientific results. It it thus, our attempt to realize an integration of theoretical and applied linguistics on the basis of computer sciences, and establish a new synthetic field called "Linguistic Informatics."

The present volume constitutes the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Linguistic Informatics held at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) in December 2003.

Table of contents

Opening Address Setsuho Ikehata 1–2 Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI) Yuji Kawaguchi 3–8

1. Computer-Assisted Linguistics One or Two Phonemes: /ø/–/u/ in Old French, /s/–/z/ in Dutch and Frisian: New Solutions to an Old Problem Pieter van Reenen and Anke Jongkind 9–28 The Lexicon-Grammar of French Verbs: A Syntactic Database Christian Leclère 29–45

A Formal Analysis of Spanish Adjective Position Masami Miyamoto 46–63

On the Language of Portuguese Estoria do Muy Nobre Vespesiano: Linguistic Change and its Documental Evidence Based on the Corpus Study Naotoshi Kurosawa 64–65

Analysing Texts in a Specific Domain with Local Grammars: The Case of Stock Exchange Market Reports Takuya Nakamura 76–98

Multivariate Analysis in Dialectology: A Case Study of the Standardization in the Environs of Paris Kanetaka Yarimuzu, Yuji Kawaguchi and Masanori Ichikawa 99–119

2. Corpus Linguistics Corpora of Spoken Spanish Language: The Representativeness Issue Francisco Moreno-Fernández 120–144

Methods of "Hand-made" Corpus Linguistics: A Bilingual Database and the Programming of Analyzers Hiroto Ueda 145–166

Multilateral Interpretation of Corpus-based Semantic Analysis: The Case of the German Verb of Movement fahren Yoshiyuki Muroi 167–179

Tools for Creating Online Dictionaries Judeo-Spanish: A Case Study Antonio Ruiz Tinoco 180–195 3. Applied Linguistics Socio-pragmatic Aspects of Workplace Talk Janet Holmes 196–220 What Do We Mean by "second" in Second Language Acquisition David Block 221–241 Integrating Applied Linguistics Research Outcome into Japanese Language Pedagogy: A Challenge in Contrastive Pragmatics Suzuko Nishihara 242–247 Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL): Moving into the Networked Future Mark Peterson 248–257

Beyond the Novelty: Providing Meaning in CALL Malcolm H. Field 258–278 4. Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching

Why Do We Need to Analyze Natural Conversation Data in Developing Conversation Teaching Materials? Some Implications for Developing TUFS Language Modules Mayumi Usami 279–294

An Analysis of Teaching Materials Based on New Zealand English Conversation in Natural Settings: Implications for the Development of Conversation Teaching Materials Takashi Suzuki, Koji Matsumoto and Mayumi Usami 295–315

5. TUFS Language Modules

The Creation of the TUFS Pronunciation Module Tsutomu Kigoshi 316–332

Development and Assesment of TUFS Dialogue Module: Multilingual and Functional Syllabus Kentaro Yuki, Kazuya Abe and Chunchen Lin 333–357 Concluding Remarks Yuji Kawaguchi 358

Index of Proper Nouns 359–360 Index of Subjects 361–363