10.1391, Qs: Phrasal-Level Pronunciation, Pro-Drop Lang.

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1391. Wed Sep 22 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1391, Qs: Phrasal-Level Pronunciation, Pro-Drop Lang.

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Date:  Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:34:05 -0700
From:  "Chad D. Nilep" <NILEP at turbonet.com>
Subject:  Q:  Phrasal-level pronunciation guide

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Date:  Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:17:19 +0300
From:  "Abdulaziz Al-Najmi" <alnajmi at usa.net>
Subject:  A question

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Date:  Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:34:05 -0700
From:  "Chad D. Nilep" <NILEP at turbonet.com>
Subject:  Q:  Phrasal-level pronunciation guide

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of a student, I am looking for a phrasal-level guide to the sounds
of spoken English, preferably featuring an audio component on tape or CD.
There are many word-level guides of the type I am seeking, used by students
to practice the sounds of spoken English.  (Several ESL teachers here at the
University of Idaho recommend the Newbury House dictionary, which features a
pronunciation CD.)  However, these word-level pronunciation guides offer no
aid for such issues as sentence intonation and sandhi.  Any suggestions
would be appreciated.  I will post a summary to the list.

Sincerely,
Chad D. Nilep
American Language and Culture Program
The University of Idaho



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Date:  Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:17:19 +0300
From:  "Abdulaziz Al-Najmi" <alnajmi at usa.net>
Subject:  A question

>>From Aziz Al-Najmi:  alnajmi at usa.net

I'm working on a paper on the Pro-drop parameter phenomena and I would like
to know how could a language like Chinese, for instance, be a pro-drop
language. As we know that in pro-drop languages like Spanish or Arabic, the
pronoun could be recovered from the verb. Spanish verbs, for instance, are
inflected for number, person, tense, and mood. In contrast, a language like
Chinese, also null-subject language, has no inflectional affixation at all.
In such case, how could we know which pronoun is refered to in a subjectless
Chinese sentence.



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