8.1299, Qs: Grammar in Schools, Corpora, Internet

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1299. Fri Sep 12 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1299, Qs: Grammar in Schools, Corpora, Internet

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Date:  Thu, 11 Sep 1997 08:47:13 +0100
From:  Dick Hudson <dick at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject:  grammar in schools

2)
Date:  Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:33:17 +0200 (CES)
From:  Mondorf Britta <Mondorf at Stud-Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject:  Re: Computer Corpora of Spoken Spanish and Spoken German

3)
Date:  Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:18:50 +0200
From:  Agnes Gruz <wmedia at algonet.se>
Subject:  Qu: Language use on Internet

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Date:  Thu, 11 Sep 1997 08:47:13 +0100
From:  Dick Hudson <dick at linguistics.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject:  grammar in schools


I'd like to know of any national (or smaller) educational systems in
which the normal curriculum (most probably in first-language classes)
includes the grammatical analysis of sentences. By `grammatical
analysis' I mean any of the following:

- the classification of words (as noun, verb, etc),
- the idenfification of grammatical functions (subject, object, etc),
- diagramming of sentence structure.

Also:
- At what age does it start?
- How successful is it?

I'll summarise back to the list if there's anything to summarise.

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Richard (Dick) Hudson
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics,
University College London,
Gower Street,
London WC1E 6BT
work phone: +171 419 3152; work fax: +171 383 4108
email: dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk
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Date:  Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:33:17 +0200 (CES)
From:  Mondorf Britta <Mondorf at Stud-Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE>
Subject:  Re: Computer Corpora of Spoken Spanish and Spoken German

Dear Colleagues,

Does anyone know of computer corpora (if possible coded prosodically)
of spoken Spanish and/or German?

Please contact Mondorf at stud-mailer.uni-marburg.de

Thank you, Britta Mondorf	


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Date:  Fri, 12 Sep 1997 00:18:50 +0200
From:  Agnes Gruz <wmedia at algonet.se>
Subject:  Qu: Language use on Internet

Dear Linguists!

I am looking for information about research and publications that deal
with language use on the Internet. Please reply to my address
wmedia at algonet.se.

Thank you in advance!

Agnes Gruz
Lund University, Sweden

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