12.908, FYI: Transcriptions Online, Syntax Test, Ling Humor

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-908. Sun Apr 1 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.908, FYI: Transcriptions Online, Syntax Test, Ling Humor

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1)
Date:  Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:42:45 +0200
From:  Stefan Rabanus <rabanus at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject:  Transcription of German and Italian Conversations

2)
Date:  Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:08:35 +0100 (BST)
From:  "Dr. James Au-Yeung" <james at psychol.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject:  Announcing ROST -- a computer-based test for syntax development

3)
Date:  Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:28:18 -0500
From:  "Tosh" <ftachino at chat.carleton.ca>
Subject:  You are a linguist when...

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

Date:  Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:42:45 +0200
From:  Stefan Rabanus <rabanus at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject:  Transcription of German and Italian Conversations

I would like to encourage all those who work in the field of
conversation analysis or do research of intonation in conversation to
use my transcriptions (45 minutes) of German and Italian conversations
at

http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/sonst/2000/0003/

I used the GAT transcription system for the representation of turn
structure, stress, utterance-final pitch movements and some other
prosodic features. The intonation contour is represented in ToBI. I
think it necessary to make this type of empirical data which is always
hard to get available for anyone who is interested in it.


-
Dr. Stefan Rabanus
Deutscher Sprachatlas
Universitaet Marburg - FB 09
D 35032 Marburg
Tel.: +49 (0)6421-2822483
Fax:  +49 (0)6421-2828936


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

Date:  Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:08:35 +0100 (BST)
From:  "Dr. James Au-Yeung" <james at psychol.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject:  Announcing ROST -- a computer-based test for syntax development

Dear Colleagues,

The Speech Group at UCL Psychology wishes to announce the release of a
computer-based test of syntax/grammar development. The test can be run with
children as young as 2. Please see the following webpage for more details:

http://www.speech.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/PROST/Rost.html

Contact info can be found on the webpage. A paper which describes an earlier
version targeting children aged 2-4 is also available (following the link from
the above page).

Please pass this message on to those who might be interested and apology if you
have received this message more than once.



Regards,


Peter Howell, James Au-Yeung & Steve Davis

The Speech Group
Department of Psychology
University College London

email: p.howell at ucl.ac.uk


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

Date:  Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:28:18 -0500
From:  "Tosh" <ftachino at chat.carleton.ca>
Subject:  You are a linguist when...

It's the busy time of the year for everyone, and I thought people might
appreciate a *light* reading.
This is my creative writing; I hope you like it.

- --------
You know you are a linguist when you...

- plan your next vacation on a wh-island.
- have a c-commanding relationship with your siblings and an m-commanding
relationship with your cousins.
- dream about colorless green ideas that sleep furiously
- build a garden path in your backyard.
- name your dog "morphophonemics"
- start to question the superiority of English language
 - your coffee filter is replaced by a comp-trace filter
- your new Email password is "bahuvrihi"
- feel you are bound like an anaphor because you have to finish your school,
have a family, etc.
- fear your big PRO is always watching and your small pro is always
disappearing
- think this is funny.
- -----------

Tosh

e-mail:    lastcreature at yahoo.com
homepage:  http://www.freespeech.org/lastman/index.html


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