7.1699, Qs: Zapotec, Machine readable Chinese, Komi stress

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1699. Sun Dec 1 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  117
 
Subject: 7.1699, Qs: Zapotec, Machine readable Chinese, Komi stress
 
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Date:  Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:55:52 CST
From:  phoebe at csd.uwm.edu (Phoebe Hensen Vitharana)
Subject:  question about Zapotec
 
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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:19:59 GMT
From:  P.Woods at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Paul Woods)
Subject:  Machine Readable Chinese Stuff
 
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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:16:20 GMT
From:  delacy at host02.net.voyager.co.nz ("Paul de Lacy")
Subject:  Komi Stress
 
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Date:  Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:55:52 CST
From:  phoebe at csd.uwm.edu (Phoebe Hensen Vitharana)
Subject:  question about Zapotec
 
I am interested in Isthmus Zapotec, an Oto-Manguean Mexican language.
Is there anyone studying Zapotec.  I'm am assessing the future of this
language in terms of language death.
 
Phoebe Vitharana
Phoebe at csd.uwm.edu
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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:19:59 GMT
From:  P.Woods at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Paul Woods)
Subject:  Machine Readable Chinese Stuff
 
Dear All,
I am looking for machine readable Chinese lexical stuff.
Can anybody help?  What I'd really like is a bilingual
lexicon which contains the following fields (or similar):
character encoding (in Big5), pronunciation in hanyu pinyin,
list of senses in English.  For example, an entry might be:
 
[char for ren2], ren2, man, person, etc.  OR
 
[char for dao4], dao4, way, path, truth, to speak, word, etc.
 
If anyone has anything even remotely resembling this, please
let me know.  The only alternative is for me to get a
dictionary and type it all in :-(.
Cheers,
Paul Woods,
Dept of Computer Science,
Uni of Sheffield,
UK.
 
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~paulw
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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:16:20 GMT
From:  delacy at host02.net.voyager.co.nz ("Paul de Lacy")
Subject:  Komi Stress
 
 
Could someone tell me a couple of things about Komi's stress system
since I can't procure the sources:
 
Ergi Itkonen (1955) "Ueber die Betonungsverhaltnisse in den
finnisch-ugrischen Sprachen.'  Acta Linguistica Academiae Scientiarum
Hungaricae 5:21-23.
V.I. Lytkin (1961)  'Komi-iaz'vinskii dialekt.'   Izdatel'stvo
Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow.
 
Hayes (1995:297) says that syllable weight is calculated by reference
to vowel height while Halle & Vergnaud (1987:52) say that the
difference is between full and reduced vowels.
 
My questions are:
-  Who is correct?
-  Is there a distinction in vowel height and a distinction in
V quality?
-  How do dipththongs figure in this calculation (having two vowel
heights)?
 
Many thanks.
 
Paul de Lacy.
 
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