LINGUIST List 8.358

Thu Mar 13 1997

FYI: Applied Lx, Corpus, Pronunciation

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <seelylinguistlist.org>

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  • Peter White, Applied Ling Assoc of Australia
  • Ann Copestake, British National Corpus access outside the EU
  • Martin Eayrs, "The teaching of Pronunciation"

    Message 1: Applied Ling Assoc of Australia

     Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:39:03 +1000 (EST)
    From: Peter White <peterwlingua.cltr.uq.oz.au>
    Subject: Applied Ling Assoc of Australia


    The Web page for the forthcoming ALAA '97 Congress is now available at http://www.cltr.uq.oz.au:8000/alaa/alaa97con.htm

    Thanks Peter White

    Message 2: British National Corpus access outside the EU

     Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:06:33 -0800 (PST)
    From: Ann Copestake <aaccsli.Stanford.EDU>
    Subject: British National Corpus access outside the EU


    The following message from Claire Warwick is a request for input to support making the British National Corpus (BNC) available to researchers outside the European Union. It was posted to a corpora mailing list - I am reposting it here (with Claire's permission), because I suspect there will be readers of Linguist who would like to use the BNC but are not currently able to do so. Please note, the meeting referred to is to be held on March 19th, and Claire would like to circulate papers beforehand, so email messages to her should be sent soon (short messages are fine). Please email her directly, at the address below.

    (For those who don't know about the BNC: it's a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written. It has been annotated with part of speech tags. It is currently freely available within the EU for research purposes. For details see http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/)

    Ann Copestake

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    Dear Colleagues,

    You may be aware that at the moment we are not authorised to make copies of the British National Corpus for use outside the EU. This is because the BNC is the product of a consortium involving both industrial and academic partners and we can only act where consensus has been reached by all partners. Consensus has not yet been reached on the matter of extending access of the corpus beyond the EU. However, we are having a meeting to discuss this issue in mid March (the exact date is still to be decided), and we (at Oxford University) are trying to gather together as many pieces of evidence to suggest that there is a wider need for the BNC as we can. If you think that access to the BNC should be widened, we would be very grateful if you could write to us and outline the reasons why you believe this is important. We hope that by presenting a collection of such emails or letters we may be able to persuade the commercial members of the consortium to widen access to the Corpus. The more reasonable argument we can muster, the stronger we can make our case. Best wishes, Claire **************************************************************************** Dr Claire Warwick phone 01865 273280 Resource Development Officer Fax 01865 273275 British National Corpus Oxford University Computing Services email BNC: natcorpoucs.ox.ac.uk 13 Banbury Road claire.warwickoucs.ox.ac.uk Oxford OX2 6NN http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc ****************************************************************************

    Message 3: "The teaching of Pronunciation"

     Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 02:07:07 +0000
    From: Martin Eayrs <meinterlink.com.ar>
    Subject: "The teaching of Pronunciation"


    ====================================== ELT NEWS & VIEWS - CALL FOR PAPERS =====================================

    We invite authors to submit articles on the theme of 'The teaching of pronunciation' for publication in a special feature supplement to be published in South America in June 1996.

    Send an email with the header "Pron. Supp. Info. Pls" or something similar and we will send you details of our publication and what kind of articles we are looking for.

    ======================== ABOUT ELT NEWS AND VIEWS ======================== ELT News and Views is a publication for teachers of English in the Southern Cone of South America. Our aim is to provide teachers of English, administrators and others professionally involved in the English language with news, information and informed articles on language and methodology that will be of use to them in their work.

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    - ------------------------------- Martin Eayrs <meinterlink.com.ar> Buenos Aires, Argentina