7.574, Qs: Intro textbook, Human-computer communication, Vocabulary

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-574. Wed Apr 17 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  103
 
Subject: 7.574, Qs: Intro textbook, Human-computer communication, Vocabulary
 
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Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:47:31 PST
From:  schess at planacc.com
Subject:  Looking for a good intro. textbook
 
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Date:  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:30:18 +0200
From:  maciejk at hum.amu.edu.pl (Maciej Karpinski)
Subject:  Human-Computer Communication
 
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Date:  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:11:16 +0200
From:  lieske at coli.uni-sb.de (Christian Lieske)
Subject:  basic vocabulary
 
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Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:47:31 PST
From:  schess at planacc.com
Subject:  Looking for a good intro. textbook
 
 
  Although I'm an archaeologist, I may be asked to teach an
introductory linguistics course next fall.  The last linguistics class
that I took was Ted Stern's linguistics core course at UOregon in the
late 80s, so I'm a little out of the loop, especially textbooks.
 
  If you have any recommendations for textbooks that you'd like to
share, please drop me a line off-list.  You'll have my eternal
gratitude, and you will have spared a bunch of students the agony of
fighting their way through a poor text.
 
Sean Hess
Washington State University
<schess at planacc.com>
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Date:  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:30:18 +0200
From:  maciejk at hum.amu.edu.pl (Maciej Karpinski)
Subject:  Human-Computer Communication
 
 
I am looking for people/books who/which deal with the HCI, including
WIMP and partially-speech-driven interfaces, from the linguistic (esp.
psycholinguistic) perspective.
 
Maciej Karpinski
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Date:  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:11:16 +0200
From:  lieske at coli.uni-sb.de (Christian Lieske)
Subject:  basic vocabulary
 
Dear linguists,
 
I would appreciate any help in finding 'basic vocabulary' for German,
English, Japanese and Swedish. I define the term 'basic vocabulary'
pragmatically as a list of wordforms covering a high percentage (say
more than 95 percent) of wordforms occuring in a certain corpus. The
list should contain all wordforms occuring in the corpus that belong
to the 'closed wordclasses' or are 'function words' so I would not
like to take a dump frequency-based approach). Although I am primarily
interested in computerized data (wordlists, lexica, thesauri,
dictionaries) I am also happy to receive pointers to theoretical work.
 
Regards,
Christian Lieske
 
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Universitaet des Saarlandes                     Tel.:    +49-(0)681/302-4346
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