14.1888, Qs: American Eng Vowels; Babbling Database

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Subject: 14.1888, Qs: American Eng Vowels; Babbling Database

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1)
Date:  Mon, 07 Jul 2003 18:36:42 +0000
From:  Tolya Kharkhurin <akharkhurin at gc.cuny.edu>
Subject:  English vowel confusion in Native Russian speakers

2)
Date:  Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:51:18 -0800
From:  Laurance Doyle <ldoyle at seti.org>
Subject:  Database of baby babbling

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

Date:  Mon, 07 Jul 2003 18:36:42 +0000
From:  Tolya Kharkhurin <akharkhurin at gc.cuny.edu>
Subject:  English vowel confusion in Native Russian speakers

Hi,

If you know of any study investigating a perceptual confusion of
American English vowels by native speakers of Russian or any database
with words including these vowels, please send me an e-mail to
akharkhurin at gc.cuny.edu Thank you in advance, Tolya

Subject-Language: English;Russian; Code: RUS


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Date:  Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:51:18 -0800
From:  Laurance Doyle <ldoyle at seti.org>
Subject:  Database of baby babbling

Greetings!

	I have been doing research in information theory over the past
several years and have been reading the volume "Photological
Development" by Dr.  Vihman. I am presently searching for a data base
of baby babbling with enough signaling units (phoenems, etc.) to
calculate the 2nd-order entropy.

	Might there be some extensive (few hundred signals) data base
that I might access or that is in the published litereature?

	Much thanks for the help with this. I've had some difficulty
as this is a bit out of my field of expertise.

	With best regards,

		Dr. Laurance R. Doyle

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Dr. Laurance R. Doyle
Information Theory & Communication
SETI Institute
2035 Landings Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043	 USA 			
email:ldoyle at seti.org	
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