11.2465, Qs: Mass vs. Count Nouns,Speech Analysis Software

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Subject: 11.2465, Qs: Mass vs. Count Nouns,Speech Analysis Software

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Date:  Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:44:45 +0100
From:  Julio Viejo <jviejo at correo.uniovi.es>
Subject:  Mass Nouns vs. Count Nouns

2)
Date:  Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:10:32 GMT
From:  "Robert Inglis" <robertinglis at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Speech Analysis Software

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

Date:  Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:44:45 +0100
From:  Julio Viejo <jviejo at correo.uniovi.es>
Subject:  Mass Nouns vs. Count Nouns

In Asturian language, there is grammatical opposition between count and
mass nouns, reflected in their morphological concordances with adjetives or
pronouns. So, we distinguish:

	Papel blancU (count noun: "a white piece of paper")// papel blancO (mass
noun "white paper [as a material]")// papeles blancOS (plural: "white
papers")

	Mazana roxA (count noun: "a red apple")// mazana roxO (mass noun: "the
whole class of apples of this colour")// mazanes roxES (plural: "red
apples")

	This morphological opposition is known, in different ways, in many other
languages (English, some Italian dialects, dialectal Spanish, Indian
languages like Wintun, ...).
	I am looking for information about all human languages with similar
characteristic, as well as bibliography in other languages than Spanish
about count and mass nouns, particularly (but not exclusively) from a
cognitive and pragmatic perspective.
	You may send information to jviejo at correo.uniovi.es (Julio Viejo
Fernández, Departament of Spanish Philology, University of Oviedo,
Asturies-Spain	).


		Thank you.


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

Date:  Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:10:32 GMT
From:  "Robert Inglis" <robertinglis at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Speech Analysis Software

Hi:

I'm doing so work involving speech analysis, and I was wondering if anyone
could help me locate a source for an inexpensive speech analysis software
program?  I need a program that will split a given sound wave into its
components -- Volume and Pitch ('Fundamental Frequency').  I've found some
programs that do do this, but they are prohibitively expensive  --- does
anyone know of any such program that's free or shareware or something of the
like?

Thanks,
R. Inglis

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