LINGUIST List 17.194

Fri Jan 20 2006

Qs: L1 Acquisition; Short Message Service Corpus

Editor for this issue: Jessica Boynton <jessicalinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Fatima Basaffar, First Language Acquisition
        2.    Ann Djachenco, Short Message Service Corpus

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Message 1: First Language Acquisition
Date: 19-Jan-2006
From: Fatima Basaffar <basafarfhotmail.com>
Subject: First Language Acquisition


Dear all,

I'm doing a cross-sectional study of the acquisition of verb inflections in Arabic as a first language, dealing with children ranging in age from 2 to 4 years old. I'm facing some difficulties in eliciting data. Could anybody tell me some good ways in eliciting tense, gender, person and number?

Thanks, Fatima

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (arb)

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Message 2: Short Message Service Corpus
Date: 17-Jan-2006
From: Ann Djachenco <anna.kinbox.lv>
Subject: Short Message Service Corpus



Dear all!

For my MA paper I'm collecting SMS written in the English language for or/and by means of mobile phones. I kindly ask everyone to send SMS with the indication of the age, sex, and education of the author of SMS.

my e-mail anna.kinbox.lv icq gexogen 312-836-983

Thanks a lot!

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): English (eng)