9.1419, FYI: Babel/reporter, SCLC update, Corpus on WWW

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1419. Sun Oct 11 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1419, FYI: Babel/reporter, SCLC update, Corpus on WWW

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1)
Date:  Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:14:47 -0700
From:  Malcolm Lawrence <malcolm at wolfenet.com>
Subject:  Babel seeks multilingual correspondents and translators

2)
Date:  Sat, 10 Oct 1998 06:37:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:  alan harris <vcspc005 at csun.edu>
Subject:  SCLC meeting update: change of venue

3)
Date:  Sat, 10 Oct 1998 06:35:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:  alan harris <vcspc005 at csun.edu>
Subject:  Lang. corpus new on WWW

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

Date:  Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:14:47 -0700
From:  Malcolm Lawrence <malcolm at wolfenet.com>
Subject:  Babel seeks multilingual correspondents and translators

Babel seeks multilingual correspondents and translators

Babel, the multilingual, multicultural online journal of arts and
ideas (http://www.towerofbabel.com) is seeking multilingual
correspondents and translators to report on what's happening in your
part of the planet for the international stringer "Our Man In Havana"
section (http://www.towerofbabel.com/sections/ourmaninhavana)

No matter where you are on the planet, no matter what languages you
speak, no matter what you do, we want to know what's going on around you
in as many tongues as you're fluent in. So far we have stringers in or
from Moscow, South Korea, Puebla, China, Bombay, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Hong
Kong, Paris, Singapore, Prague, Arabia, Jamaica, New York City,
Tennessee, Raleigh, Louisiana, San Francisco, Oakland, Hawaii, Tacoma,
prison, utopia and church. Content is all in English, as well as
selected pieces which are also in German, French, Spanish, Tagalog and
Russian.

Preferential consideration for any content submitted in more than just
English. Pseudonyms are fine if you are in a delicate situation where
discretion is of the utmost importance. Professional writing experience
is not necessary, and since we can't pay you yet that should encourage
fresh new undiscovered voices.

So if you have a keen eye for observation, a love of life and education,
and a knack for having a deft turn of phrase, please send an email to
malcolm at wolfenet.com.

Take care,

Malcolm Lawrence
Editor-in-chief
Babel
http://www.towerofbabel.com


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

Date:  Sat, 10 Oct 1998 06:37:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:  alan harris <vcspc005 at csun.edu>
Subject:  SCLC meeting update: change of venue


Dear Friends:

Please note the change of meeting place for the SCLC (date remains the
same)

John Bulger

ANNOUNCING

The foundation and first biannual meetings of the Southern California
Linguistics Circle

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Southern California boasts of extensive talent in most if not all
areas of linguistic theory and applications.  But we don't talk to
each other much.  SCLC intends to bring us together for two purposes:
First, SCLC will provide a forum for specialists to present to the
linguistic community at large problems of language analysis they have
encountered in their own endeavors.  The common denominator will be
that the problems involve language structure in some substantive way.
We are particularly concerned to hear from individuals and teams whose
work builds on natural language analysis but whose purpose is not
primarily that of designing theories of language structure.

Our first meetings will cover areas such as the following: (Note that
many of the areas listed below are theoretical rather than applied in
nature).


- Computer applications: Voice recognition, speech synthesis,
information retrieval, machine translation

- Languages of the deaf: Sign language, lip (and face) reading, coding
oral information visually

- Psycholinguistics: Normal and abnormal language acquisition,
modeling speech production and comprehension, natural language
processing

- Bilingualism: Evaluating bilingual education

- Neurolinguistics: Aphasiology, acquired dyslexia, language disorders
in autism, Alzheimer's, and dementia, specific language impairment
(SLI); New techniques for brain-language research--CT,PET, MEG, MRI,
ERP

It should be rewarding just to tell each other what we're doing, and
confronting theory with practice and informing practice with theory
should prove exciting.  But more specifically we expect that
individuals in different areas will discover common interests in terms
of problems, methodologies, occasionally even solutions, and that
these will generate cooperative research, workshops, joint grant
applications, etc.  We note that funding agencies today favor cross
disciplinary and cross institutional endeavors.

Second, we'd like to enhance both nationally and internationally the
reputation of Southern California as a center of language related
research, theoretical as well as applied. This is obviously to our
mutual interest in terms of attracting industry, graduate students,
grants...  To this end SCLC will publish and distribute a biannual
brochure describing our activities and meetings.  We are currently
seeking funding to be able to publish monographs or working papers
covering all areas of linguistic research conducted in Southern
California.

SCLC is in its formative stages.  For further suggestions,
information, contributions, ...  please contact any of Edward
L. Keenan, Vicki Fromkin, Joseph Aoun at, respectively,
ekeenan at ucla.edu, fromkin at ucla.edu, aoun at usc.edu

*******************

The first meeting will be held at

**HERBERT MORRIS HUMANITIES CONFERENCE ROOM**   (NOTE THIS CHANGE)
(ROYCE 306)
November 13, 1998
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

The second meeting will be at

USC
February 5, 1999
Time and place TBA.


AGENDA FOR THE FIRST MEETING

9:00-9:15
Welcome:  Introducing SCLC
(Edward Keenan)

9:15-11:45
Presentations and panel discussion:

Theme: Cognitive and Medical Applications of Linguistic Analysis

We have invited speakers and panelists in the following areas.  We are
open to further suggestions both for areas to be covered and for
speakers or panelists:

Linguistic diagnosis of medical conditions; language deficits of
Alzheimer's; autism, Williams' syndrome, childhood epilepsy,
hemidecorticates, dyslexia and hemispheric specialization, aphasia,
language processing, sign language and language representation in the
deaf.

11:45-1:30
Lunch in the Covell Commons Dining Hall

1:30-2:00
Business meeting
(Joseph Aoun)

2:00-4:45
Presentations and panel discussion

Theme: Computational Applications of Linguistic Analysis

Voice recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, information
retrieval, automated parsing, translating oral distinctions to visual
and tactile ones.

************

There is limited space available so please secure your place and RSVP
as soon as possible.  Please register by September 15, 1998 by sending
your check (made out to the UC Regents) for $5.00/student or
$15.00/faculty or professional to:

John Bulger
UCLA Department of Linguistics
3125 Campbell Hall
Box 951543
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543




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

Date:  Sat, 10 Oct 1998 06:35:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:  alan harris <vcspc005 at csun.edu>
Subject:  Lang. corpus new on WWW


This message announces a new web site, Community Language Collection:
http://www.uncc.edu/english/clc The site presents audio and text clips,
graphics, and full transcripts from 40 oral interviews with senior citizens
in 1979, illustrating several varieties of American English, with the
majority from the Southeastern U.S., and the Charlotte, N.C. region.
Speakers self-reported themselves as male and female, black and white, with
a range of education and occupations. Narratives may be searched by theme or
by speaker birthdates, 1885-1923. To make the site available to the largest
number of viewers/visitors, including schoolchildren taking NC history, the
site does not use frames and  includes a dual track for streaming compressed
audio. Although the original tapes were made under less than desirable
conditions, a range of regional features is accessible via the audio
segments selected for display. Clips from the tapes were selected to present
one or more features of pronunciation within a narrative segment of the
interview.



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