6.1266, Qs: Gender and bilingualism, Oronyms, Phonology, ESL

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1266. Mon Sep 18 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  144
 
Subject: 6.1266, Qs: Gender and bilingualism, Oronyms, Phonology, ESL
 
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Date:  Sun, 17 Sep 1995 04:23:00 +0900
From:  BXA03555 at niftyserve.or.jp ("=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCPzk9OyEhO0sbKEI=?= ")
Subject:  Gender and Bilingualism
 
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Date:  Sat, 16 Sep 1995 17:58:12 +0200
From:  ahousen at vnet3.vub.ac.be (Alex Housen)
Subject:  Oronyms
 
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Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 14:42:19 +1000
From:  John_Bowden at muwayf.unimelb.edu.au (John Bowden)
Subject:  None
 
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Date:  Fri, 15 Sep 1995 15:20:55 GMT
From:  GAGLIARD at chiostro.univr.it
Subject:        bibliography on "language centres"
 
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Date:  Sun, 17 Sep 1995 04:23:00 +0900
From:  BXA03555 at niftyserve.or.jp ("=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCPzk9OyEhO0sbKEI=?= ")
Subject:  Gender and Bilingualism
 
   I am currently a Ph. D. student at Internaional Christian
Univ., Tokyo, working on an issue concerning women and bilingualism.
 
   What I am particularly interested in is 1) if it is true that women
are more eager to become bilingual (this phenomenon seems to be true
in Japan and in most developed countries) and 2) if so, then why?
 
   Please let me know of any preceding works or on-going projects in
this area, especially those which show statistcal data.
 
   Thank you very much in advance.
 
Name: Fumi Morizumi
E-mail address: BXA03555 at niftyserve.or.jp
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Date:  Sat, 16 Sep 1995 17:58:12 +0200
From:  ahousen at vnet3.vub.ac.be (Alex Housen)
Subject:  Oronyms
 
Hi,
 
I have a request on behalf of a colleague in the AI department whose is
doing research on speech synthesis.  He is looking for a set of oronym-like
constructions in *English*, i.e. quasi-identically sounding sentence pairs
which can be segmented in different ways and which can be disambiguated by
means of suprasegmental prosody (e.g. pitch and stress).
 
The Dutch example he sent me goes as follows:
 
1.  Gisteren is de vorst ingevallen
     "Yesterday the frost set in"
2.  Gisteren is de vorstin gevallen
     "Yesterday the queen fell"
 
where the prefix "in-" in sentence (3) carries stress in contrast to the
suffix "-in" in (4).
 
So I guess what he is looking for would be something like :
 
3.  I scream
vs.
4.  Ice cream
 
More of these can be sent to:
 
Patrick Nilens at pnilens at etro.vub.ac.be
 
A summary will be posted.
 
Alex Housen
 
 
 
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Dr. Alex Housen                                 Germanic Languages Dept.
University of Brussels (VUB)            Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel:+32-2-6292664; Fax:+32-2-6292480; E-mail:ahousen at vnet3.vub.ac.be
___________________________________________________________
 
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Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 14:42:19 +1000
From:  John_Bowden at muwayf.unimelb.edu.au (John Bowden)
Subject:  None
 
REGARDING                None
 
 
I am trying to track down literature on shift in English from dental
fricatives TH to F and V as well as accounts (with phonetic explanations) of
what happens to dental fricatives with second language learners of English,
eg. French-speakers who replace them with S and Z and Slavic speakers who
replace with T and D respectively. I know there is such literature explaining
the reasons for the language-specific choices, but I cannot remember the
sources.  Any help gratefully accepted.
 
 
John Bowden                         John_Bowden at muwayf.unimelb.edu.au
Linguistics, University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3052, AUSTRALIA.
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Date:  Fri, 15 Sep 1995 15:20:55 GMT
From:  GAGLIARD at chiostro.univr.it
Subject:        bibliography on "language centres"
 
Could anyone send information about:
-software for the teaching of English as first or second language
(ELT, EFL) i.e. bibliography of courses (any kind).
-internet and the teaching/learning of English.
Thanks
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