LINGUIST List 17.470
Mon Feb 13 2006
Qs: Recursion in Nursery Rhymes; Freeware Sound Files
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1. Jill
de Villiers,
Recursion in Nursery Rhymes
2. Yukiko
Sasaki Alam,
Freeware Sound Files of English Words
Message 1: Recursion in Nursery Rhymes
Date: 12-Feb-2006
From: Jill de Villiers <jdevilsmith.edu>
Subject: Recursion in Nursery Rhymes
Dear Linguist List,
I have a project underway with a student that needs some linguists toconsult their memories of childhood, especially in other languages. We arecompiling a database of children’s rhymes (nursery rhymes, skipping rhymes,songs, those in verbatim folk takes etc.) that display recursion. This canbe of various forms, but we are most interested in these types:
S –recursion as in multiple relative clauses “This is the man that caughtthe pig that chased the dog…”PP-recursion “in the nest on the branch of the tree in the woods…”
We are not sure if there are any that use multiple adjectives, or noun-nouncompounds, but we’d love to hear about them. Of course, we would appreciatea translation as well as the original in other languages, but please sendthe original anyway if you can’t do the translation!
We have searched many paper resources on English, used the web, queried ourforeign students, but we decided to come to the source: people who wouldrecognize recursion, and might find this interesting!
Nursery rhymes seem to be a repository of relatively rare tricky linguisticand logical phenomena that children should get exposed to but might not.For this reason, we are curious about what is found about complex recursionin such sources. When we are finished, this will be a nice resource, we hope.
Please email us as jdevilsmith.edu
Thanks!Jill de Villiers
Linguistic Field(s):
Syntax
Message 2: Freeware Sound Files of English Words
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Date: 11-Feb-2006
From: Yukiko Sasaki Alam <sasakik.hosei.ac.jp>
Subject: Freeware Sound Files of English Words
Hi Everyone,
Do any of you happen to know of a site which hosts sound files ofEnglish words for free? My students are making some educational softwarefor their senior projects, and some are creating software for improvingEnglish vocabulary. We always face copyright problems when we want to postsoftware on the Internet. Could you please suggest a possible place wherethe sound files are freeware? Thank you!
Best regards,
Yukiko Sasaki Alamsasakik.hosei.ac.jpHosei University, Japan
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
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