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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span><span name="Brooks, Mark"></span></span><span class="gI"><span name="Montgomery Michael" class="gD">Montgomery Michael</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:ullans@yahoo.com">ullans@yahoo.com</a></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Linguistics" 2012.10.01 (02) [EN]</span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p><font face="garamond,new york,times,serif">Hello Mark<br><br>I think
that it's quite safe to say that in the U.S. generative theory retains
the same primacy in the study of syntax. In some domains, such as
historical linguistics, it has increased (e.g. a trans-Atlantic group of
mainly syntacticians has since 1990 held a biennial meeting called
DiGS, Diachronic Generative Syntax). As a very broad generalization,
formal approaches to language analysis are dominant rather than
functional ones. Generative syntax seems to have less and less room for
semantics, but more and more for cognitive psychology and
computational-based models. In phonology the ruling paradigm is
Optimality Theory. Once one steps outside formal analysis, one sees
vastly more linguists interested in and working on language acquisition
(especially second language
acquisition), discourse analysis, and some areas of sociolinguistics.
Phonetics, historically far less prominent in the U.S. than in the U.K. </font><font face="garamond,new york,times,serif"><font face="garamond,new york,times,serif">is experiencing very rapid growth </font>(usually
under the rubric "socio-phonetics") in large part because of the
proliferation of software for instrumental analysis. In other words,
acoustic phonetics is replacing impressionistic phonetics for more and
more linguists, with the benefit of reintroducing phonetics at some
institutions where it had disappeared. In contrast to Europe one finds
virtually no attention to typology here in the U.S. (the subject seems
mainly to be a continental European one) and far less corpus
linguistics, though interest in the latter is steadily growing. So when
Linguist List announces conferences on typology, corpus linguistics,
multilingualism, and a few other topics,
they are almost never ones held in North America. <br><br>I will now run for cover from those left out of these generalizations.<br><br>All the best<br><br>Michael Montgomery<br>Univ. of South Carolina</font><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="gI"></span></span><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">
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