LINGUIST List 11.1783

Sun Aug 20 2000

Qs: Tools for Plotting Formant Values, Eng Idioms

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  • Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec, Tools for plotting formant values
  • Lotfi, Query: Learning English idioms

    Message 1: Tools for plotting formant values

     Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:36:08 -0500
    From: Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec <zsfagyaluiuc.edu>
    Subject: Tools for plotting formant values


    Hi, I am looking for a more efficient way of plotting formant frequencies on an x-y axis. I have been using Microsoft Excel until recently but I am currently trying to do this with a large corpus, and Excel requires way too much work for this. I would welcome any suggestions for an alternative method. Please reply here: zsfagyaluiuc.edu Thank you, Suzanna

    Message 2: Query: Learning English idioms

     Date: 20 Aug 2000 15:08:18 EDT
    From: Lotfi <Lotfiwww.dci.co.ir>
    Subject: Query: Learning English idioms


    Dear Linguists, I'm posting the query below on behalf of one of our students here at Azad University. Please send emails to her at <shayand135parsiannet.com> or <shayanbaharyahoo.com>. Best, Ahmad R. Lotfi. ============================================================== Dear Linguists, I'm an MA student of TESOL at Azad University (Esfahan), and I'm doing my MA proposal on learning English idioms. I want to see if there's a difference in this regard between two types of verbal idioms, viz. verbs followed by an internal argument (e.g. 'to break news') and those preceded by an external argument (e.g. 'the Devil take you'). Please let me know if you can think of ANY related works, both theoretical and empirical, that I may review for my thesis. Best, Claudet Artoonian. - --------------------------------------------------------------