6.946, Qs: Bimodal electronic dict, Mood use, Spanish

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-946. Fri Jul 7 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  126
 
Subject: 6.946, Qs: Bimodal electronic dictionary, Mood use, Spanish
 
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Date:  Fri, 07 Jul 1995 09:41:05 BST
From:  mighetto at vinga.hum.gu.se (David Mighetto)
Subject:  bimodal electronic dictionary (in digital sound & ordinary spelling)
 
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Date:  Fri, 07 Jul 1995 10:25:26 -0800
From:  yengestr at WEBER.UCSD.EDU (Yrjo Engestrom) (by way of
       ervintr1 at violet.berkeley.edu (Susan Ervin-Tripp))
Subject:  Request on mood use
 
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Date:  Fri, 07 Jul 1995 10:27:31 +0200
From:  Manfred.Immler at mch.sni.de (Dr. Manfred Immler)
Subject: Spanish 'indefinido/preterito perfecto'
 
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Date:  Fri, 07 Jul 1995 09:41:05 BST
From:  mighetto at vinga.hum.gu.se (David Mighetto)
Subject:  bimodal electronic dictionary (in digital sound & ordinary spelling)
 
Subject: bimodal electr dictionary (in digital sound & ordinary spelling)
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Dear netters,
 
For an imminent virtual classroom project with Swedish students, we are in
great need of an electronic dictionary which is bimodal, i.e. represents
lexical entries in both speech (that is, digital sound) and writing
(ordinary spelling). We are primarily interested in material for Spanish,
English and Swedish, (monolingual as well as bilingual). Should you possess
or know of any such software (demos, beta-versions etc. are fine), please
drop us an e-line!
 
Many thanks in advance,
 
Gunnar Bergh       <bergh at eng.gu.se>
David Mighetto  <mighetto at rom.gu.se>
 
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Date:  Fri, 07 Jul 1995 10:25:26 -0800
From:  yengestr at WEBER.UCSD.EDU (Yrjo Engestrom) (by way of
       ervintr1 at violet.berkeley.edu (Susan Ervin-Tripp))
Subject:  Request on mood use
 
A colleague from Finland asked me to forward the following request to
the ETHNO list.
 
Yrjo Engestrom
UCSD
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I have compared the planning discourse in primary school teachers' team meeting
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in two different cultures, Finland and the United States. One interesting
difference was that in the Finnish team the indicative was the dominant mood,
while in the American team conditional phrases dominated.
 
It would greatly help my analysis if someone could suggest literature on
variations of mood use across cultures. In particular, I would like to find
research reports on how common the use of conditional mood is in ordinary
conversational English.
 
Any hints are greatly appreciated.
 
Merja Karkkainen
University of Helsinki
 
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Date:  Fri, 07 Jul 1995 10:27:31 +0200
From:  Manfred.Immler at mch.sni.de (Dr. Manfred Immler)
Subject: Spanish 'indefinido/preterito perfecto'
 
Tengo una pregunta de 'linguistica aplicada' a mis colegas
hispanohablantes. Una amiga mia espanola (de Valencia),
siempre y totalmente normalmente, utiliza las formas
siguientes para el 'indefinido/preterito perfecto'
 
        tu preguntasteS, tu recibisteS, etc.
 
con una "s" final. Del otro lado, todas la gramaticas
dicen que las formas correctas para eso serian:
 
        tu preguntaste, tu recibiste, etc.
 
sin "s" final. Me interesaria cuanto es comun este
fenomeno: quienes de vosotros tienen informaciones u
observaciones sobre la distribucion de este fenomeno; y,
quienes de vosotros en su dialecto personal utilizan las
formas "tu preguntasteS, tu recibisteS, etc." ? Que
pensais sobre esta forma ? Pensais que es frecuente o que
es muy rara ? Conoceis a personas quienes la utilizan ?
 
 
Gracias y hasta luego !
 
M. Immler
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