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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	John  Nerbonne
Institution:	University of Groningen
State and/or Country:	Netherlands
Linguistic Field(s):	Computational Linguistics Phonology
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Languages in Contact  Linguistic Databases
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Dissertation Director * of:	Linguistic Knowledge and Word Sense Disambiguation (Tanja Gaustad, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Topics in Nivkh Phonology (Hidetoshi Shiraishi, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Phonological Grammar and Frequency: An integrated approach: Evidence from German, Indonesian and Japanese (Marjoleine Sloos, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Quantitative Perspectives on Syntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects (Marco Spruit, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Finding the Right Words: Implementing Optimality Theory with Simulated Annealing (Tamás Bíró, Author)
Academic Paper Abstract:	Deutsche Syntax deklarativ: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar für das Deutsche. By Stefan Müller. (Linguistische Arbeiten, 394.) Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999. Pp. xiii, 486. Paper. DM 186.00.
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