6.1437, Qs: ESL Syllabus,Text Processors,Fingerspelling,Labov

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1437. Tue Oct 17 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  157
 
Subject: 6.1437, Qs: ESL Syllabus,Text Processors,Fingerspelling,Labov
 
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Date:  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 07:49:36 -0300
From:  MOODLES at superbowl.und.ac.za (Tony Moodley - PG)
Subject:  Re: ESL Syllabus
 
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Date:  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:26:00 +0700
From:  RAFAEL at ifqsc.sc.usp.br (Rafael Humberto Scapin)
Subject:  Multilingual Text Processors
 
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Date:  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:29:25 EDT
From:  messing at tiger.asel.udel.edu (Lynn Messing)
Subject: Text With Representative Frequency Distribution of Letters
 
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Date:  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 16:22:52 -0000
From:  jkirk at clio.arts.qub.ac.uk (John Kirk)
Subject:  Q: Denotation and Labov's "Boundaries of Words"
 
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Date:  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 07:49:36 -0300
From:  MOODLES at superbowl.und.ac.za (Tony Moodley - PG)
Subject: ESL Syllabus
 
 
Dear colleagues
 
I am currently researching ESL syllabi that are being used worldwide
for purposes of comparison with the syllabus being used in my
country, South Africa.  The level that I am focusing on is the 14-17
year group.
 
I would welcome your assistance in providing me access to syllabi
being used in your country for the above age group.  Alternatively, I
would appreciate it if you could perhaps provide me with a contact
person at the Ministry of Education in your country who could
provide me with this information.
 
Thanks in advance
 
Tony
 
email: moodles at superbowl.und.ac.za
 
Post:  P.O. Box 4001
       Village Mews
       Tongaat
       KwaZulu-Natal Province
       Republic of South Africa
 
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Date:  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:26:00 +0700
From:  RAFAEL at ifqsc.sc.usp.br (Rafael Humberto Scapin)
Subject:  Multilingual Text Processors
 
Dear friends,
 
   Could you please inform me if there is any text processor that
allows one to write in many foreign alphabets, such as Arabian,
Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Burmanese, Russian, etc?
   I thank you in advance for your kind attention.
 
 
                                Greetings from Brazil,
 
                               Rafael Humberto Scapin
                               RAFAEL at IFQSC.SC.USP.BR
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Date:  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:29:25 EDT
From:  messing at tiger.asel.udel.edu (Lynn Messing)
Subject: Text With Representative Frequency Distribution of Letters
 
We are doing research which involves training neural networks
to recognize fingerspelling. For training purposes, we would like
to have a relatively small text which approximates the
frequency distribution of the letters as used in a typical
English text. Does anyone know whether such a piece has been
composed?
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Cheers,
Lynn Messing
 
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Lynn Messing  (messing at asel.udel.edu)
Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories
The Alfred I. duPont Institute and The University of Delaware
 
    Alfred I. duPont Institute        voice: (302) 651-6846
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http://www.asel.udel.edu/~messing/home.html
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Date:  Mon, 16 Oct 1995 16:22:52 -0000
From:  jkirk at clio.arts.qub.ac.uk (John Kirk)
Subject:  Q: Denotation and Labov's "Boundaries of Words"
 
 
I wonder whether anyone could point me in the direction of articles or
other research on denotation in which Labov's paper "The Boundaries of
Words and their Meanings" is taken as a model and developed. (The paper
appears in C.-J. Bailey and R.W. Shuy (eds.) New Ways of Analyzing
Variation in English. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP. 1973. pp. 340-373
[proceedings of first NWAVE conference].)
 
With many thanks.
 
John Kirk
 
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School of English
The Queen's University of Belfast
 
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