LINGUIST List 11.2042

Mon Sep 25 2000

Qs: Automated Pitch Analysis,Undergrad Ling Major

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  • Sean Armstrong, Software for Automated Pitch Analysis
  • Richrd Cameron, Help with Proposal for Undergrad Major in Linguistics

    Message 1: Software for Automated Pitch Analysis

     Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 00:39:19 -0700
    From: Sean Armstrong <seadancwuwildcats.com>
    Subject: Software for Automated Pitch Analysis


    I am currently writing my thesis comparing Northwest American English and Taiwanese ESL students' intonation and pitch accent. While looking on the internet I found references to ToBI referencing system. Is there any possible way of automating such a pitch analysis? Currently I use an Mac, and the Praat speech analysis program. I am on a very limited budget ( starving student!!!) so any advice for low cost or free tools would be gretly appreciated. In addition, I would like to know if any of you have used an alternative system for describing pitch accent or other prosodic features of non-traditional English dialects.

    Thank you for your help and expertise! Sean Armstrong

    seadancwuwildcats.com

    Message 2: Help with Proposal for Undergrad Major in Linguistics

     Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:06:46 -0500
    From: Richrd Cameron <rcameronuic.edu>
    Subject: Help with Proposal for Undergrad Major in Linguistics


    We need your help. We are attempting to develop and then propose an undergraduate major in Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The major will have two sub-concentrations: Computational Linguistics and/or Socio-/Psycholinguistics. This major would be offered through the Department of English, a department primarily devoted to literature but also with a sizeable component focusing on rhetoric, ethnography of literacy, English education, and ESL. We need information to help us make a case that an undergraduate major in Linguistics is worthwhile. To this end, we pose 3 questions and hope that readers of Linguist List can help.

    A) Do you know of any English Departments which offer majors in Linguistics? (Preferably at State Universities) B) At State Universities which currently offer an undergraduate major, how many majors do you have? C) What could a student with a BA in Linguistics expect to do with the degree beyond school?

    Any help of any sort would be greatly appreciated.

    Please respond to Richard Cameron (rcameronuic.edu)

    Thanks.