6.240 Qs: Gender marking, Yakut, Phonetic dictionaries, Kyrgyz

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-240. Sat 18 Feb 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 121
 
Subject: 6.240 Qs: Gender marking, Yakut, Phonetic dictionaries, Kyrgyz
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:44:22 +0000 (GMT)
From: Maik Gibson (llrgbson at reading.ac.uk)
Subject: Loss of gender marking
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:17:29 -0500 (EST)
From: nvinokur at polar.Bowdoin.EDU (Nadezhda I. Vinokurova)
Subject: the Yakut(Sakha) language
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 95 12:10 CDT
From: Jean DeMerit (DEMERIT at macc.wisc.edu)
Subject: phonetic dictionaries
 
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Date:   Fri, 17 Feb 1995 16:18:46 -1000
From: Ricky Jacobs (rjacobs at uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu)
Subject: Kyrgyz
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:44:22 +0000 (GMT)
From: Maik Gibson (llrgbson at reading.ac.uk)
Subject: Loss of gender marking
 
When a language loses gender marking in some aspect of its system
(verbal/ adjectival inflections, pronouns etc.), how common is it that
the originally feminine form is generalised, rather than the masculine?
Would it be correct to assume that the masculine form is generally
treated as unmarked, in contrast to the feminine, and so will normally be
used in a resulting system without the gender marking?
 
Thoughts, data and references please!
 
Maik Gibson
University of Reading
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 11:17:29 -0500 (EST)
From: nvinokur at polar.Bowdoin.EDU (Nadezhda I. Vinokurova)
Subject: the Yakut(Sakha) language
 
Dear linguists,
 
        I would like some information about the Yakut(Sakha) language - a
Turkic language of the Uralo-Altaic family which is spoken in Yakutia,
Siberia, Russia. I want to find out whether it is being taught somewhere
besides Russia or maybe, there are some people who are interested in it.
 
nvinokurova at polar.bowdoin.edu
 
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 95 12:10 CDT
From: Jean DeMerit (DEMERIT at macc.wisc.edu)
Subject: phonetic dictionaries
 
Hi-
 
I've asked around a little without much luck, and am interested in
a speedy response.  I'm looking for a phonetic dictionary of English,
preferably an online source but paper would do as well.  Something
where I can easily compile lists of say CVC words for any given vowel.
The more sophisticated searching capabilities the better.
 
I'm only interested in (for the moment) high frequency words.  Which
brings up another question.  Are there online wd frequency databases
around/Kucera & Francis, others?  Or better, combined phonetic dictionary
and word frequency?
 
Any help anyone can provide in tracking down these resources will be
greatly appreciated, and I apologize if this request is overly common.
 
Thanks,
 
Jean L. DeMerit
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
demerit at macc.wisc.edu
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Date:   Fri, 17 Feb 1995 16:18:46 -1000
From: Ricky Jacobs (rjacobs at uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu)
Subject: Kyrgyz
 
Can anyone tell me of material on the Kyrgyz language apart from Hebert
and Poppe (1963) and the minimal sketch in Creissels (1977)? I may be
going in that direction and would like to be able to ask where I can park
my yak. Unfortunately I do not read Russian.
 
                        Roderick A. Jacobs
                        Depts. of Linguistics & ESL
                        University of Hawai'i at Manoa
                        1890 East-West Road
                        Honolulu, HI 96822
                        USA
 
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