14.92, Qs: Use of Minidiscs, Writing Systems

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Subject: 14.92, Qs: Use of Minidiscs, Writing Systems

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1)
Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:35:28 -0000
From:  Lynne Murphy <lynnem at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject:  Minidisc Use in the Field and Lab

2)
Date:  Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:32:58 +0000
From:  Benedetta Bassetti <benedetta at onetel.net.uk>
Subject:  Writing systems and linguistic analysis

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Date:  Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:35:28 -0000
From:  Lynne Murphy <lynnem at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject:  Minidisc Use in the Field and Lab


Steven Keiser's recent posting discusses the usability of minidiscs in
recording acoustic data.  I recently decided against using minidisc
technology in the development of a corpus of spoken language because
it seemed like transcription would be difficult (since there doesn't
seem to be such a thing as a minidisc dictaphone transcriber).  Does
anyone have a way around this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Lynne Murphy

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics

School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9QH
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Date:  Thu, 09 Jan 2003 16:32:58 +0000
From:  Benedetta Bassetti <benedetta at onetel.net.uk>
Subject:  Writing systems and linguistic analysis

Dear Linguists,

I am a PhD student trying to complete her literature review, and I
would be extremely grateful for your help.

I am trying to put together a list of researchers who proposed that
the writing system/orthography affects
1)	the metalinguistic awareness of the folk linguist; or
2)	the linguistic analysis of the professional linguist; or
3)	both.

The idea is that those linguistic units that are represented in the
writing system become the units of linguistic analysis for the
layperson and/or for the linguist. For instance, an alphabetic writing
system generates phonemic awareness in its readers and the concept of
phoneme in linguist theorizing. These never develop in readers of
syllabic writing systems and in their linguistic tradition.

I am already aware of the work of Aronoff, Bugarski, Derwing, Harris,
Householder, Linell, Olson, Scholes and Vachek. And here are my
questions:
1)	Whom did I leave out?
2)	Who criticized this view?
3)	Who provided evidence against it?

I thank you in advance for any help and I promise I will post a
summary.

Best wishes of a happy new year!

Benedetta Bassetti

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Benedetta Bassetti
PhD student
University of Essex, UK
benedetta at onetel.net.uk
bbasse at essex.ac.uk

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