LINGUIST List 11.1181

Wed May 24 2000

Qs: Interlanguage Noun Combination, Pitch-Contours

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  • Lena Agathopoulou, Noun Combination in Interlanguage
  • Ehsan Ahmadi, Pitch-Contours

    Message 1: Noun Combination in Interlanguage

     Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:56:35 +0300
    From: Lena Agathopoulou <agathoenl.auth.gr>
    Subject: Noun Combination in Interlanguage


    Dear all

    I'm researching noun combinations of the sort noun+noun compounds, genitive 's+noun and noun+preposition+noun in the Greek-English interlanguage. I'm looking into pluralization errors (e.g. the pencils box) or genitive 's errors (e.g. the pencil's box), as well as problems in comprehending the semantics of noun compounds in adult language acquisition. I would appreciate any references to related current or past research. I am already familiar with:

    Alegre& Gordon'96, Balhorn '93, Bongartz'98, Broeder, Extra, & Hout '89,Clahsen, Harald, Rothweiler, Monika & Woest '92,Clahsen '95, Clark & Berman '87, Clark, Hecht & Mulford '86, Clark & Hecht '82, Craats, Corver & Hout '97, Downing '77, Gordon '85,77. Klein '95, Klein & Perdue '97, Lardiere' 99, '95a, '95b, Lardiere & Schwartz '97, Olshtain '81, '86, Perdue '93, Ryder '94.

    One more favor: I'm looking for Gass, S. & L. Selinker (Eds.), (1983). Language transfer in language learning. Rowley, MA: Newbury House Publishers. I realise the edition of 1992 with the same editors and the same title published by John Benjamins contains different articles, right? I've got the latter but I cannot find the 1983 book. Could somebody enlighten me on this please?

    Thanks Lena Agathopoulou agathoenl.auth.gr School of English, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece

    Message 2: Pitch-Contours

     Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 13:36:07 -0700 (PDT)
    From: Ehsan Ahmadi <ehsan_ahmadiyahoo.com>
    Subject: Pitch-Contours


    Dear Friends;

    I am trying to classify the pitch-contours of Farsi syllables according to their sonority class(in stressed and un-stressed position),ie to find the relationship between sonority class andfluctuation in pitch,viz a micro-prosody approach to Farsiintonation. If you have seen a similar work about English,please help me!

    Best Wishes,

    M.Ahmadi Department of Linguistics, Tehran University