11.1532, Qs: Ling for the Blind, Crosswords in Other Scripts

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Subject: 11.1532, Qs: Ling for the Blind, Crosswords in Other Scripts

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1)
Date:  Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:32:45 EDT
From:  JPKIRCHNER at aol.com
Subject:  Linguistics for the blind

2)
Date:  Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:53:53 +0200
From:  Oesten Dahl <dahl at eva.mpg.de>
Subject:  Crosswords in other scripts

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

Date:  Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:32:45 EDT
From:  JPKIRCHNER at aol.com
Subject:  Linguistics for the blind

Does anyone have experience in teaching structural aspects of linguistics
(phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.) to severely sight-impaired students?
The traditional ways of dealing with this subject are so reliant on visuals
(IPA, syntactic trees, etc.) that blind students could not take a typical
intro linguistics course.  I feel, however, that there must be some way to
convey most of this information without visuals.  Has anyone done it, and if
so, how did you do it?

James Kirchner


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

Date:  Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:53:53 +0200
From:  Oesten Dahl <dahl at eva.mpg.de>
Subject:  Crosswords in other scripts

This query originates in a question to a Swedish Ask-an-expert panel but
I think it is of some general interest.

Are there crossword puzzles in languages that use a writing system other
than the Latin alphabet or one based on the same principles (Cyrillic,
Greek)?

- Oesten Dahl
oesten at ling.su.se
or
dahl at eva.mpg.de

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