7.959, Qs: Scripts, Yes&no, Speech sound, Machine translation
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LINGUIST List: Vol-7-959. Mon Jul 1 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 167
Subject: 7.959, Qs: Scripts, Yes&no, Speech sound, Machine translation
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 0400 19:02:41
From: dsolnit at umich.edu ("david b. solnit")
Subject: Indic scripts, standard Lao
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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 07:38:55 BST
From: maya at paris7.jussieu.fr (Marina Yaguello)
Subject: Yes and No
3)
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 16:36:52 +0900
From: s-tokuma at hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp (Shinichi Tokuma)
Subject: speech sound perception
4)
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 13:22:05 BST
From: balka at llsun10.essex.ac.uk (Balkan L)
Subject: Machine translation
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 0400 19:02:41
From: dsolnit at umich.edu ("david b. solnit")
Subject: Indic scripts, standard Lao
Dear friends,
1. Is it correct to say that the standard language of Laos is based on
the speech of Vientiane? If not, what is a better characterization of
standard Lao?
2. Most of the scripts of Southeast Asia are of Indic origin: Mon,
Burmese, Shan, Khmer, Thai, Lao, White Tai, Kavi and more. I'm pretty
sure it's incorrect to say that they are derived from Devanagari:
Florian Coulmas in _The Writing Systems of the World_ (Blackwell, 1993,
pp 182, 191) states that the SE Asian scripts are derived from 'the Pali
scripts', which are in turn derived from the Gupta script (as is
Devanagari). I'd like to check that this is mostly correct, and in
particular that 'Pali script(s)' is an accepted and accurate
designation. Thanks for any and all help.
David Solnit
dsolnit at umich.edu
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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 07:38:55 BST
From: maya at paris7.jussieu.fr (Marina Yaguello)
Subject: Yes and No
Dear linguists
I am posting this on behalf of a friend. She would like to know if there
are other languages beside Latin and Chinese which do not have words for
yes and no but in which, instead, you have to answer "I do", "I will" or "I
don't" etc.
Thanks for your answers to maya at paris7.jussieu.fr (Marina Yaguello)
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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 16:36:52 +0900
From: s-tokuma at hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp (Shinichi Tokuma)
Subject: speech sound perception
Dear Linguists
I am writing on behalf of a friend of mine, who
is interested in the modelling of speech sound
perception. In particular, he is interested in the
modelling of categorical perception of speech
sounds, i.e., how we can reconstruct imperfectly
transmitted or imperfectly produced phonological
segments of speech signals
Now he needs some reference that discusses
that modelling generally.
I recommended he should read
"Cognitive Models of Speech Processing"
edited by Altmann (MIT Press). However he would like to
look at more up-to-date reference.
Can anybody suggest some books or papers
that satisfy him?
Yours,
Shin TOKUMA (Mr)
| Shin TOKUMA |
| Phonetics Laboratory |
| Sophia University, 7-1 |
| Kioi, Chiyoda, Tokyo 102 Japan|
| Tel: +81-3-3238-3492 / e-mail |
|s-tokuma at hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp|
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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 13:22:05 BST
From: balka at llsun10.essex.ac.uk (Balkan L)
Subject: Machine translation
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