10.504, Qs: Human Languages, Chilean Spanish, Lang Testing

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-504. Wed Apr 7 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.504, Qs: Human Languages, Chilean Spanish, Lang Testing

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1)
Date:  Fri, 02 Apr 1999 21:56:37 +0200
From:   "HAROLD W. VADNEY" <bmtconsult at ATT.NET>
Subject:  Human Language Groups

2)
Date:  Tue, 6 Apr 1999 04:33:57 -0500
From:  Barbara Avila-Shah <bia at acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject:  Articles on Chilean Spanish

3)
Date:  Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:20:35 -0400
From:  Hlne Knoerr <hknoerr at uottawa.ca>
Subject:  Paper-pencil vs computerized testing

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Date:  Fri, 02 Apr 1999 21:56:37 +0200
From:   "HAROLD W. VADNEY" <bmtconsult at ATT.NET>
Subject:  Human Language Groups


Dear Collegues:

Can anyone provide a website URL that will give information on
conventional grouping systems for human languages. Actually, I am
looking for a source that will help to classify languages by
complexity and by linguistic group. Any help will be much
appreciated!

Harold



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Date:  Tue, 6 Apr 1999 04:33:57 -0500
From:  Barbara Avila-Shah <bia at acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject:  Articles on Chilean Spanish


One of my students is writing a paper on the use of the labiodental
fricative in Chilean Spanish.  Nevertheless, he has encountered
several difficulties in obtaining some of the references.  If you
have/wrote the articles listed below, could you send me via mail,
e-mail or fax a copy?  We will greatly appreciate your help.

Wagner, Claudio, Rodriquez, Gustavo, Roldan Y, Eduardo Tecas V.  1994.
Chile en el Atlas Linguistico de Hispanoamerica.  Estudios Filologicos
29(1) 15-24.

Ludwig, Ralph.  1995.  Functional linguistics, Markedness Theory, and
American Spanish:  the Case of Chilean Speech.  Boletin de Filologia
35 275-316.

Bartelt, Guillermo.  1992.   Chileno:  A Maritime Pidgin among California
Indians.  California Linguistic Notes 23(2) 25-28.


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Date:  Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:20:35 -0400
From:  Hlne Knoerr <hknoerr at uottawa.ca>
Subject:  Paper-pencil vs computerized testing

Dear fellow linguists,

Would anyone know of any research that has been conducted on comparing
non-adaptive paper-pencil versus computerized language testing? We are
working on a computerized version of our French placement test and
have a limited sample, so we would welcome any input and
suggestions. We will post replies if we receive enough feedback.

Thank you,
Helene Knoerr
University of Ottawa

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