8.1428, Qs: Software,Guttman,Phonological features

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Subject: 8.1428, Qs: Software,Guttman,Phonological features

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Date:  Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:45:31 +0100
From:  eva born-rauchenecker <fs4a089 at rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
Subject:  Macintosh Compatible Software

2)
Date:  Mon, 06 Oct 1997 16:47:24 +0900
From:  N o s t a l g i a <kenjiro at icis.shoin.ac.jp>
Subject:  A question on Guttman (aka implicational) scalogram

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Date:  Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:42:19 BST
From:  "Clare Gallaway" <GALLAWAY at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk>
Subject:  Phonological features

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Date:  Mon, 6 Oct 1997 09:45:31 +0100
From:  eva born-rauchenecker <fs4a089 at rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
Subject:  Macintosh Compatible Software


Hi!
I'm looking for a software (affordable and preferably Macintosh compatible,
DOS would be alright, too)  that searches words in different text files,
cuts out the found word(s) plus a context of +/- 3 lines, e.g.,  a n d
saves the whole passage in a special file.
The only comparable software I know is *Gofer 2.0*, but, unfortunately, it
suffers from some severe problems: for example, it is not compatible with
system 7.x (Mac), it saves the finds only as ASCII files ...
Who can help me?

Eva Born-Rauchenecker
fs4a089 at rrz.uni-hamburg.de
Slavisches Seminar, Universit=E4t Hamburg


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Date:  Mon, 06 Oct 1997 16:47:24 +0900
From:  N o s t a l g i a <kenjiro at icis.shoin.ac.jp>
Subject:  A question on Guttman (aka implicational) scalogram


Hi,

I have been wondering if there has been any study on Guttman scaling (which is
also known as implicational scaling in a number of sub-branches of linguistics)
that looked at how likely it is, by sheer chance, to come up with a set of data
that is highly reproducible (i.e., the coefficient of reproducibility is over
.90) and also highly scalable (i.e., the Scalability Coefficient >> 0.60).
Despite its (past?) popularity in sociolinguistics and other areas there
doesn't seem to be any study that addressed this question, and the references I
looked at only mention those coefficients.

I cross-posted a similar query to STAT-L as well, and my apologies to anyone
who had to see this posting more than once.

Thanks in advance,


Kenjiro Matsuda
Kobe Shoin Women's University
kenjiro at icis.shoin.ac.jp


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Date:  Mon, 6 Oct 1997 13:42:19 BST
From:  "Clare Gallaway" <GALLAWAY at fs1.ed.man.ac.uk>
Subject:  Phonological features

From:  Clare Gallaway
Centre for Audiology, Education of the Deaf and Speech Pathology,
University of Manchester

I am posting this request on behalf of colleagues Anne Hesketh and
Catherine Adams who are working on a clinical research project:

They wonder if anyone has experience of, or references on, the use
of distinctive feature analysis to measure progress in children with
phonological output problems?

I will of course post a summary to the list

With thanks,

CG



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