10.1921, Qs: Acquisition of trills, NLP research

[LINGUIST Network]

LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1921. Sun Dec 12 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1921, Qs: Acquisition of trills, NLP research

Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org>
            Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Andrew Carnie: U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org>

Associate Editors:  Martin Jacobsen <marty at linguistlist.org>
                    Ljuba Veselinova <ljuba at linguistlist.org>
		    Scott Fults <scott at linguistlist.org>
		    Jody Huellmantel <jody at linguistlist.org>
		    Karen Milligan <karen at linguistlist.org>

Assistant Editors:  Lydia Grebenyova <lydia at linguistlist.org>
		    Naomi Ogasawara <naomi at linguistlist.org>
		    James Yuells <james at linguistlist.org>

Software development: John H. Remmers <remmers at emunix.emich.edu>
                      Sudheendra Adiga <sudhi at linguistlist.org>
                      Qian Liao <qian at linguistlist.org>

Home Page:  http://linguistlist.org/


Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jody 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:  Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:54:57 +0000
From:  Martin J Ball <mj.ball at ulst.ac.uk>
Subject:  Acquisition of trills; Rhotics

2)
Date:  Fri, 10 Dec 1999 01:51:21 PST
From:  "Niladri Sekhar Dash" <niladrisekhar at hotmail.com>
Subject:  NLP

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

Date:  Fri, 10 Dec 1999 13:54:57 +0000
From:  Martin J Ball <mj.ball at ulst.ac.uk>
Subject:  Acquisition of trills; Rhotics

Other sources having come up empty, I'd welcome help in finding
literature on the following two related topics:

1) Studies of the normal acquisition of apical trills in languages
that have them (e.g. Italian, Spanish, etc etc)

2) Discussion on the nature of the rhotic category, e.g. whether
trills and approximants can really form a single class
cross-linguistically.

Please reply directly to me; I'll be happy to post a summary if
sufficient information is forthcoming.

Martin J. Ball, PhD
Professor of Phonetics & Linguistics
University of Ulster at Jordanstown
mj.ball at ulst.ac.uk


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

Date:  Fri, 10 Dec 1999 01:51:21 PST
From:  "Niladri Sekhar Dash" <niladrisekhar at hotmail.com>
Subject:  NLP


In my recent research in NLP, from a written corpus of Bangla, I have
accumulated a huge number of surface wordforms, which are ambiguous
both in form and function. These forms posit great problem for
morphological processing, parts-of-speech tagging and other related
works. For disambiguation, I have applied a few methods such as
lexical association, probabilty measure, internal structure of the
wordfrom, contexual occurrence etc., but the result is not
satisfactory.  Hence, I would earnestly request the experts in this
area to guide me. I would be grateful if anybody can give me the
information if any work is done in this area or if any
article/book/journal etc. is available for the purpose.

I convey my thanks in advance.

The summary would be posted in the LINGUIST LIST


With kind regards,

Niladri Sekhar Dash
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
203, B.T. Road
Calcutta - 700 035.
mail: <niladri at isical.ac.in> (Off) <niladrisekhar at hotmail.com> (Res)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-10-1921