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  11.904, Qs: New England Accent,Written Lang & Deaf Learners

    1) From:     Alex Hoyt <ahoyt at mudrac.ffzg.hr>
       Subject:  Movies with New England accents
    2) From:     "DAVID GOUGH" <DGOUGH at uwc.ac.za>
       Subject:  The written language of deaf learners

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-904.html

  11.905, Qs: Taboo Language, Searching for a book

    1) From:     "Lisa Jones" <slater_jones at hotmail.com>
       Subject:  Taboo language - swearing
    2) From:     "Julia Karavaeva" <julia at relcom.kz>
       Subject:  Searching for Walt Wolfram's book "Dialects and American English"

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-905.html

  11.906, Calls: Comp Ling/ACL, Automatic Processing/Portuguese

    1) From:     Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
       Subject:  Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2000)
    2) From:     lucia at dc.ufscar.br (Lucia Rino)
       Subject:  Automatic Processing of Written and Spoken Portuguese Language

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-906.html

  11.907, Calls: Automatic NLP (TALN), Renaissance/19th Century

    1) From:     TALN2000 <taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>
       Subject:  Automatic Natural Language Processing (TALN2000)
    2) From:     Yannick Portebois <yannick.portebois at utoronto.ca>
       Subject:  Renaissance in the 19th Century

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-907.html

  11.908, Confs: The Nature of Speech Perception

    1) From:     Bert Schouten <Bert.Schouten at let.uu.nl>
       Subject:  The Nature of Speech Perception

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-908.html

  11.909, Confs: Symposium on Second Language Writing

    1) From:     "Paul Kei Matsuda" <pmatsuda at purdue.edu>
       Subject:  Symposium on Second Language Writing

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-909.html

  11.910, Jobs: TTS, Phonetics/Linguist Engineer, UK

    1) From:     Dan Faulkner <Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com>
       Subject:  TTS, Phonetics/Linguist Engineer: n/a at Aculab plc, Buckinghamshire UK

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-910.html

  11.911, Qs: Top 10 Grammaticalization,2 Sonority Questions

    1) From:     "Vorobievy Gory" <otipl at mail.ru>
       Subject:  Top 10 in grammaticalization
    2) From:     decaen at chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)
       Subject:  Two Sonority Questions

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-911.html

  11.912, Qs: Grammar and Writing, Inventing Languages

    1) From:     Dick Hudson <dick at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>
       Subject:  The Connection between Grammar and Writing
    2) From:     burt at vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu (Susan Meredith Burt)
       Subject:  Methods and Motivations of Inventing Languages

      http://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-912.html