<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Tue 18 Dec 2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">New ELRA Arabic resources</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 18 Dec 2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:reposted from CORPORA</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:New ELRA Arabic resources</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">*******************************************************************<br>ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update<br>*******************************************************************<br><br><b>SPECIAL OFFERS:<br><br></b>ELDA has initiated a large distribution campaign before the end of this year.<br>Should you need language resources available in our catalogue, we will be happy to offer you possibilities of discounts <br>(depending on the amount of language resources you are interested in), for a purchase placed before the end of December 2007.<br>For more information, please contact Valérie Mapelli <a href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org">mailto:mapelli@elda.org</a> <br><br><b>New Resources:<br><br></b>ELRA is happy to announce that 11 new Speech Resources are now available in its catalogue.<br><br><b>ELRA-S0258 Orientel United Arab Emirates MCA (Modern Colloquial Arabic) <br></b>This speech database contains the recordings of 750 Arabic speakers recorded over the United Arab Emirates' fixed and mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 49 read and spontaneous items. <br>For more information, see: <a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1042">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1042<br><br></a><b>ELRA-S0259 Orientel United Arab Emirates MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) <br></b>This speech database contains the recordings of 500 Arabic speakers recorded over the United Arab Emirates' fixed and mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 49 read and spontaneous items. <br>For more information, see: <a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1043">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1043</a> <br><br><b>ELRA-S0260 Orientel English as spoken in the United Arab Emirates <br></b>This speech database contains the recordings of 500 speakers of English recorded over the United Arab Emirates' fixed and mobile telephone network. Each speaker uttered around 47 read and spontaneous items. <br>For more information, see: <a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1044">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1044</a> <br><br>For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli <a href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org">mailto:mapelli@elda.org<br><br></a>Visit our on-line catalogue: <a href="http://catalog.elra.info/">http://catalog.elra.info</a>. <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 18 Dec 2007</div></body></html>