9.224, Qs: Arabic, Fiji Lang., Icelandic, Russian-English
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Subject: 9.224, Qs: Arabic, Fiji Lang., Icelandic, Russian-English
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 20:48:32 +1300
From: "Craig McL. Wallace" <craigwal at iconz.co.nz>
Subject: Arabic Sociolinguistics Contents
2)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:09:40 -0500 (EST)
From: molsen at umiacs.umd.edu (Mari Broman Olsen)
Subject: Fiji Correspondence Course
3)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 06:30:42 -0500
From: Antony Dubach Green <green at zas.gwz-berlin.de>
Subject: Icelandic phonology
4)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:04:59 -0500
From: "Kamneva, Natalia" <nyuka at Claritech.com>
Subject: Comparison of Russian and English vocabulary
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 20:48:32 +1300
From: "Craig McL. Wallace" <craigwal at iconz.co.nz>
Subject: Arabic Sociolinguistics Contents
Can anyone please send me the contents of the following volume, which
I am told is now out-of-print. (If it is still available for purchase
anywhere, please advise too).
Yasir Suleiman "Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and perspectives"
Many thanks
Craig McL Wallace
Craig McL. Wallace
M. Ed Admin (ELT)(Adelaide), Dip SLT(ESOL), Dip. Tchg
LTCL(TEFL)(Lond), B.A.
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:09:40 -0500 (EST)
From: molsen at umiacs.umd.edu (Mari Broman Olsen)
Subject: Fiji Correspondence Course
Are any Fiji language courses offered (for continuing education
credit) by correspondence or on the internet? My cousin and his
family are contemplating a move and his wife (a teacher) would like to
take a language course in advance. The University of the South Pacific
lists correspondence courses (including linguistics) among those at
http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/icdl/database/australa/fiji/usthpac/cour/index.htm
but not in Fijian.
You may respond to me and cc him (erom at wi-net.com). I'll post a
summary if there is interest.
Thank you.
********
Mari Broman Olsen
Research Associate
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
3141 A.V. Williams Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
PHONE: (301) 405-6754 FAX: (301) 314-9658
WEB: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~molsen
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 06:30:42 -0500
From: Antony Dubach Green <green at zas.gwz-berlin.de>
Subject: Icelandic phonology
I have a series of questions about Icelandic phonology.
(1) Am I correct in assuming that the orthographic <d~t> contrast is
word-initially one of aspiration rather than voicing? I.e. <d> in <dag>
'day' represents a voiceless unaspirated stop; while <t> in <tala> 'to
speak' a voiceless aspirated stop.
(2) Am I correct in assuming that intervocalic <t> is actually UNaspirated?
E.g. in a word like <gata> 'street', the <t> represents the same sound as is
found at the beginning of <dag>, NOT the same as is found at the beginning
of <tala>.
(3) Are there any words in Icelandic with intervocalic orthographic <d>
(not counting morpheme-initial d after a prefix or in a compound)? A quick
glance through an Icelandic dictionary reveals lots of <d-> (edh) in this
position, but I couldn't find any <d>. If <d> does occur in this position,
how is it pronounced? Does it merge with the <t> of <gata>?
(4) I have found a word-internal orthographic <d~t> contrast in the context
l_r: <heldri> 'notable' vs. <haltra> 'to hang'. Is there still a phonetic
difference between the d and the t? If so, what is it?
(5) Are there any other relevant examples, e.g. -Vdr- vs. -Vtr-?
As usual, all the descriptive grammars I can find spend two pages on
phonology and 200 on morphology and syntax...
Thanks in advance,
Antony D. Green
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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 18:04:59 -0500
From: "Kamneva, Natalia" <nyuka at Claritech.com>
Subject: Comparison of Russian and English vocabulary
I heard two opposite point of view:
English vocabulary is twice bigger than Russian
and opposite.
Could anybody give me a clear answer ?
I am not only curious, I have to use it in my work on machine
translation and information retrieval.
Thank you very much.
Natalia Kamneva
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