7.980, Qs: Syntactic complexity, Infixing in Eng, CD-ROM dictionaries

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-980. Thu Jul 4 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  124
 
Subject: 7.980, Qs: Syntactic complexity, Infixing in Eng, CD-ROM dictionaries
 
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Date:  Wed, 03 Jul 1996 19:50:01 CDT
From:  sl70 at musuko.spc.uchicago.edu (Stuart Luppescu)
Subject:  Q: Computing syntactic complexity
 
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Date:  Thu, 04 Jul 1996 12:38:17 +0800
From:  aclynes at ubd.edu.bn (Adrian Clynes)
Subject:  Infixing in English
 
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Date:  Thu, 04 Jul 1996 17:05:21 +0900
From:  gmodica at fh.seikei.ac.jp (Guy Modica)
Subject:  CD-ROM dictionaries
 
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Date:  Wed, 03 Jul 1996 19:50:01 CDT
From:  sl70 at musuko.spc.uchicago.edu (Stuart Luppescu)
Subject:  Q: Computing syntactic complexity
 
 
I'm involved in a study involving an investigation of what makes some
reading passages harder to understand and others easy. I would like to
compute an index of syntactic complexity, so my question is two-fold:
1) Is there a computer parsing program available that can analyze text
adequately? and 2) What kind of structures that such a program would
identify be indicative of higher or lower complexity? I would guess
that a center embedding such as in the previous sentence would be on
the high end of the complexity scale, but what else? Your help is
appreciated.
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Date:  Thu, 04 Jul 1996 12:38:17 +0800
From:  aclynes at ubd.edu.bn (Adrian Clynes)
Subject:  Infixing in English
 
 
What can be infixed in English?
 
In Australian English you hear things like fan-bloody-tastic and
fan-fuckin-tastic, but apart from bloody and fucking (excuse my
English!)  probably not much else is used in this way.
 
I'd be grateful if people could send me examples of other
words/morphemes which can be infixed.
 
Adrian Clynes
aclynes at ubd.edu.bn
 
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Date:  Thu, 04 Jul 1996 17:05:21 +0900
From:  gmodica at fh.seikei.ac.jp (Guy Modica)
Subject:  CD-ROM dictionaries
 
 
Hello everyone.
 
I am searching for a list of available CD-ROM dictionaries of English,
and articles, reviews or other material related to these electronic
resources.  Any help or references you can provide will be
appreciated.
 
Regards.
 
 
Guy Modica, Associate Professor
Department of English and American Literature
Seikei University
3-3-1 Kichijoji-kitamachi
Musashino, Tokyo 180 Japan
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