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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Corpora colleagues, it is 33 years after I
entered the post graduate studies. It is 30 years after my first article was
published. After that I published 330 articles and 6 books. I have computed the
sound pictures of 157 world languages. Unfortunately, there are many more
languages in the world which phonemic frequency of occurrence was never
computed. I guess it is important to find out how one language differs from the
other by the phonemic frequencies in their speech sound chains. They are as
different as the faces of people, It is possible to compare the sound pictures
of languages and draw some typological conclusions. However, it looks that
nobody cares. I never received any e-mail message which would support my studies
on the frequncy of occurrence of speech sounds in different languages. It is
strange for me why American Indian, African or Australian aboriginal languages
were never studied from this point of view. I wonder if I should celebrate
the publication of my first article or I should regret that I went into
linguistics. It looks that the Natural Sciences are appreciated by the society
much more than linguistics. It is very sad for me. I wonder if you can explain
why it is so. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to <A
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Remain yours most
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk,
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