LINGUIST List 10.90

Wed Jan 20 1999

Qs: Lang Attitude, Chinese Phrases, Lang & Genetics

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  • a9255719, Language attitudes
  • Arthur, Chinese phrase detecting
  • Peter T. Daniels, Languages and genetics

    Message 1: Language attitudes

     Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:10:10 -0100
    From: a9255719 <a9255719unet.univie.ac.at>
    Subject: Language attitudes


    Dear LL, I am a student at the University of Vienna English Language Department, and am currently working on my MA Thesis with the topic "Language attitudes in the US towards a Southern speech variety". I am therefore looking for a) references to very recent language attitude studies (primarily in the English speaking world) to get a survey of current research trends in the field as a whole b) language attitude studies about the South of the USA c) material on the Southern speech variety from a linguistic point of view (articles, etc.) d) material on American regional accents as a whole (the global situation)

    I would be very grateful for any information or references on my topic(s). Thank you very much in advance and greetings from Austria Barbara Soukup a9255719unet.univie.ac.at

    Message 2: Chinese phrase detecting

     Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:16:38 +0800
    From: Arthur <wang_jiayue163.net>
    Subject: Chinese phrase detecting


    Dear linguists:

    I'm doing NLP on Chinese phrase (esp. noun phrase) detecting. A thorough bibliography is of vital importance to me. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your attention! I'll post a summary if there's enough interest.

    Arthur Wang wang_jiayue163.net

    Message 3: Languages and genetics

     Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 07:51:08 -0500
    From: Peter T. Daniels <grammatimworldnet.att.net>
    Subject: Languages and genetics


    A non-linguist friend who is, shall we say, enthusiastic about cross-discipline studies cites with great approval a number of articles by Robert R. Sokal and colleagues, which supposedly demonstrate close coincidence between populations as defined genetically and speech communities, within Europe. Since the only linguist listed among the colleagues is Merritt Ruhlen, and since none of the cited articles appear in linguistics journals (most are in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.), I wonder whether this work has been evaluated both for its specific application to the Europe situation (which seems anomalous wrt the rest of the world) and for its possible relevance to other areas.

    Thank you. Summary as warranted. - Peter T. Daniels grammatimworldnet.att.net