8.1450, Qs: Addresses, L1 Acq, Slang, Public Lang

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1450. Thu Oct 9 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1450, Qs: Addresses, L1 Acq, Slang, Public Lang

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Date:  Tue, 07 Oct 1997 15:13:00 +0100
From:  Jeroen van de Weijer <vdweijer at rullet.LeidenUniv.nl>
Subject:  Q: Addresses linguistic departments

2)
Date:  Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:53:17 -0700
From:  Ilona Vandergriff <vdgriff at sfsu.edu>
Subject:  Qs. First language acquisition and faulty input

3)
Date:  	Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:54:30 +0300
From:  Timo Haukioja <timhau at antares.utu.fi>
Subject:  Q: Slang and colloquialism

4)
Date:  Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:56:09 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Mark Boardman <mark at boardman.u-net.com>
Subject:  Public Language
	

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 07 Oct 1997 15:13:00 +0100
From:  Jeroen van de Weijer <vdweijer at rullet.LeidenUniv.nl>
Subject:  Q: Addresses linguistic departments


Hi.  We want to send a large (snail)mailing, with information and
poster, to Linguistics Departments worldwide. Does anyone know of a
list of addresses that is available somewhere? I will prepare a copy
for use by others, if possible.

Thanks,
Jeroen van de Weijer
Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL)
Leiden University


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 7 Oct 1997 10:53:17 -0700
From:  Ilona Vandergriff <vdgriff at sfsu.edu>
Subject:  Qs. First language acquisition and faulty input

At my daughter's daycare, many parents have been concerned about the
heavy foreign accents of some of the caregivers. Some of these
concerns may have been fed by media coverage of infant and child brain
development, which stresses the importance of verbal interaction and
motherese. I am aware of one study which showed that faulty input by
adult ASL speakers was "corrected" by their native speaker children. I
would like to get some information and references on the role of
faulty input in first language acquisition, particularly early
acquisition (infants and toddlers).

____________________________________________________________________

Ilona Vandergriff, Ph.D.                         415.338.3120
Assistant Professor of German                    vdgriff at sfsu.edu
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
USA
_____________________________________________________________________


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  	Wed, 8 Oct 1997 11:54:30 +0300
From:  Timo Haukioja <timhau at antares.utu.fi>
Subject:  Q: Slang and colloquialism



I am posting this query on behalf of a student who wants to work on
slang and colloquialisms. He wants to start by doing a survey of
current literature on the subject, but as this isn't my field I
couldn't give him much in terms of hints and advice, and a search on
our library database came up more or less empty. The web seems to have
a lot of pages devoted to slang glossaries/dictionaries, but not much
else. Any pointers to literature and/or relevant web sites would be
much appreciated.

Please respond either to me (timhau at utu.fi) or to jukkar at utu.fi.

Thanks,

Timo Haukioja
Department of Linguistics		phone:  +358-2-333 6689
Henrikinkatu 2			fax:    +358-2-333 6560
FIN-20014 University of Turku		e-mail: timhau at utu.fi
Finland


-------------------------------- Message 4 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:56:09 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Mark Boardman <mark at boardman.u-net.com>
Subject:  Public Language
	

If anyone knows of any linguistic studies on the language used in
newspaper and magazine horoscopes, I'd very grateful for some help.
Pointers towards online resources would be particularly welcome.
	
I'd also be interested in anything on the language of religious
ceremonies or political speeches.
	
	Many thanks.
	
	Mark Boardman
	mark at boardman.u-net.com
	
	

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