8.1452, Qs: Ranking, Spanish, Historical Ling

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1452. Thu Oct 9 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1452, Qs: Ranking, Spanish, Historical Ling

Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>
            T. Daniel Seely: Eastern Michigan U. <seely at linguistlist.org>

Review Editor:     Andrew Carnie <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Associate Editor: Ljuba Veselinova <ljuba at linguistlist.org>

Assistant Editors:  Martin Jacobsen <marty at linguistlist.org>
                    Brett Churchill <brett at linguistlist.org>
                    Anita Huang <anita at linguistlist.org>
                    Julie Wilson <julie at linguistlist.org>
                    Elaine Halleck <elaine at linguistlist.org>

Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
                      Zhiping Zheng <zzheng at online.emich.edu>

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/


Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <marty at linguistlist.org>
 ==========================================================================

We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually
best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is
then  strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list.   This policy was
instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we
would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.

=================================Directory=================================

1)
Date:  Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:17:52 +0800 (GMT-8)
From:  Lua Kim Teng <luakt at iscs.nus.edu.sg>
Subject:  On ranking of journals/conferences

2)
Date:  Wed,  8 Oct 1997 17:11:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Tamara Al-Kasey <talkasey+ at andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject:  mandarin learners of Spanish

3)
Date:  Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:31:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Rebecca Larche Moreton <mlrlm at sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu>
Subject:  Historical linguistics quotation

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

Date:  Wed, 8 Oct 1997 13:17:52 +0800 (GMT-8)
From:  Lua Kim Teng <luakt at iscs.nus.edu.sg>
Subject:  On ranking of journals/conferences

Dear Colleagues,

We are attempting to compile a list of journals and conferences for
our research group. I shall be most appreciative if you can kindly
return this email with the following suggestions:

1. Good international peer review journals in the research areas:
   (i) AI in general
   (ii) Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics
   (iii) Chinese computing/Processing of Oriental Languages

2. International Conferences in the following areas:
   (i) AI in general
   (ii) Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics
   (iii) Chinese computing/Processing of Oriental Languages
	
If possible, please rank them.

Thank you very much.

A/Professor Lua Kim Teng
Head, Computational Linguistic Lab, NUS


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

Date:  Wed,  8 Oct 1997 17:11:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Tamara Al-Kasey <talkasey+ at andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject:  mandarin learners of Spanish

Can anyone guide me to a (US-accessable) source for pedogogical
materials regarding the phonetics of Spanish for speakers of MANDARIN?

I am dealing with an interesting student of Spanish whose native
language is Mandarin but is fluent (L2) in English.  Lacking the trill
(vibrante multiple) and flap (vibrante simple) in both her L1 and L2,
she is transfering a single phoneme, alternatively realized as /r/ or
/l/ for the Spanish phonemes /r/ and /rr/ (or /l/). I am not sure what
role the L2 might be playing here.

All of the tricks that I know of for producing the trill on command
are for English Speakers and have not helped her to actually produce
the sound.  (these are imitative tasks and approximation by using /t/
or /d/ in medial position.)  How is the articulation coached for
Mandarin speakers?  How is the contrast between the three Spanish
phonemes taught/learned?

Tamara Al-Kasey
Carnegie Mellon University


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

Date:  Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:31:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Rebecca Larche Moreton <mlrlm at sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu>
Subject:  Historical linguistics quotation

Y'all:

Who, in reference to the study of historical linguistics, said that
this was a field in which "the consonants count for little, and the
vowels for nothing at all", or words to that effect?  Thanks.

Rebecca Larche Moreton

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-8-1452