8.676, Qs: Russian, Pamir, French & Engl

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-676. Wed May 7 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.676, Qs: Russian, Pamir, French & Engl

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1)
Date:  Mon, 05 May 97 17:03:28 0000
From:  sergey pakhomov <pakh0002 at maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Subject:  Russian language corpus analysis

2)
Date:  Tue, 6 May 1997 16:16:40 +0000
From:  cpeust at gwdg.de
Subject:  Qs: Pamir languages native speakers wanted

3)
Date:  Wed, 7 May 1997 14:37:51 +0200
From:  ahousen at vnet3.vub.ac.be (Alex HOUSEN)
Subject:  Tests for comparing French & English proficiency

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Date:  Mon, 05 May 97 17:03:28 0000
From:  sergey pakhomov <pakh0002 at maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Subject:  Russian language corpus analysis

Dear Linguist List members,

I would like to ask for your help in searching for a Russian language
corpus analysis (something like a Francis & Kucera word frequency
list).  I wonder if anyone of you has ever encountered such word
frequency list for Russian or could point me in the right direction. I
would greatly appreciate any information on this.


Sergey Pakhomov
Grad Student in Linguistics
University of Minnesota
	


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Date:  Tue, 6 May 1997 16:16:40 +0000
From:  cpeust at gwdg.de
Subject:  Qs: Pamir languages native speakers wanted

Dear listmembers,

I am looking for a native speaker of any of the Pamir languages,
preferably Shughni.
Thank you a lot,

Carsten Peust
Seminar of Egyptology and Coptology
Goettingen
cpeust at gwdg.de


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Date:  Wed, 7 May 1997 14:37:51 +0200
From:  ahousen at vnet3.vub.ac.be (Alex HOUSEN)
Subject:  Tests for comparing French & English proficiency

Dear linguists,

I have a question on behalf of a friend (Liesbeth Hendrix) who has to
evaluate and compare the outcomes of the English- and French-foreign
language programmes in Flemish secondary schools. She is looking for
well-tried tests which measure not just linguistic competence but also
discourse, pragmatic and/or sociolinguistic competence in French
and/or English. Also, she wants to know if anyone has experience in
measuring and comparing levels of achievement in two different
second/foreign languages (involving the same learners).  Please send
any information, recommendations, suggestions you might have to
mpierrar at vnet3.vub.ac.be.

Thank you very much.

-Alex Housen
(ahousen at vnet3.vub.ac.be)

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