9.51, Qs: Vowels, Tune, Asian Adjectives, L2 and Dreams

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Subject: 9.51, Qs: Vowels, Tune, Asian Adjectives, L2 and Dreams

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1)
Date:  Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:43:24 -0500 (EST)
From:  Richard Sproat <rws at research.bell-labs.com>
Subject:  English Vowels: Historical

2)
Date:  Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:45:57 -0600 (CST)
From:  lhartman at siu.edu (Lee Hartman)
Subject:  Children's Taunting Tune

3)
Date:           Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:32:46 +0100
From:  "Michael Jung" <mkjung at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:        Adjectives in East Asian languages

4)
Date:  Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:54:41 +0000
From:  pagnozze <pagnozze at tcd.ie>
Subject:  Foreign Language and Dreams

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:43:24 -0500 (EST)
From:  Richard Sproat <rws at research.bell-labs.com>
Subject:  English Vowels: Historical


Can anyone point me to recent work that discusses the vowel space of
18th and early 19th century British English dialects?

-

Richard Sproat
Language Modeling Research Department
Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies  | tel (908) 582-5296
600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2D-451        | fax (908) 582-3306
Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA              | rws at bell-labs.com
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/rws.html


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:45:57 -0600 (CST)
From:  lhartman at siu.edu (Lee Hartman)
Subject:  Children's Taunting Tune

Sol   mi    la    sol   mi
Nyeah nyeah nya   nyeah nyeah!
You   ca-   -an't catch me!
Yes   I-    -I    ca-   -an!
John- ny's  a     cry-  baby!
(Same tune as "It's raining, it's pouring,
the old man is snoring.")

        During my childhood here in the U.S.A., when my playmates
wanted to taunt one another, regardless with what words, they sang
them to this tune.  Since then I have heard that English-speaking
children all over the world use the same tune.  Though I can't be
sure, I think I have also heard informally the incredible claim that
_all_ children, regardless of language, use this tune to taunt one
another!
        Can anyone shed light on these myths?  Do children's taunts in
other languages assume standard tunes?

- ------------------------------------------------------------------
Lee Hartman
Dept. of Foreign Languages
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4521
U.S.A.


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:           Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:32:46 +0100
From:  "Michael Jung" <mkjung at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject:        Adjectives in East Asian languages


For my doctoral thesis on syntax and semantics of adjectives in East
Asian languages (especially Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean), I
would be very grateful for any references to recent papers or books on
this matter.

I will post a bibliographical summary.

Apologies for cross-posting on "Linguist" and "Chinese" lists.

Michael Jung
Universitaet Leipzig
Germany


-------------------------------- Message 4 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:54:41 +0000
From:  pagnozze <pagnozze at tcd.ie>
Subject:  Foreign Language and Dreams

I'm planning to write a thesis on the subject of foreign language and
dreams. To be more specific, I'm interested in the influence that an
L2 may have on the individual, especially in the phase of acquisition
and how the L2 manifests itself during the time of sleeping and
dreaming. I've found, among the people that I have interwieved that
the phase of acquisition of an L2 is the time in which the individual
has a better performance and fluency during dreaming time. Learners
seem to remember, when awakening that they had surprising
conversations, let us say for instance in English, when their
knowledge of English was enough to get by for survival. I'm very
interested to find out more on the subject because I believe that the
passive time of sleeping and dreaming is a record of the knowledge the
learner accumulates when awake without realizing it. I hope I have
menaged to be clearer and that you have enough information in order to
give me some clue on how and where to find some material to carry on
my investigation.

Thank you very much for your co-operation and interest, I hope I'll be
hearing from you soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Enrica Pagnozzi

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