15.2811, Qs: Hebrew Syllabification;Arabic Written Script Speed

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Subject: 15.2811, Qs: Hebrew Syllabification;Arabic Written Script Speed

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1)
Date: 05-Oct-2004
From: Dafna Graf < D.Graf at let.leidenuniv.nl >
Subject: Hebrew Syllabification/Morpheme Boundaries

2)
Date: 07-Oct-2004
From: Liana Lorigo < liana at cedar.buffalo.edu >
Subject: Written Script Speed/Arabic


	
-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:01:36
From: Dafna Graf < D.Graf at let.leidenuniv.nl >
Subject: Hebrew Syllabification/Morpheme Boundaries

Dear Linguists,

In my research on the interaction between phonology and morphology in Modern
Hebrew, I'm looking into - among other things - the results of syllabification
across morpheme boundaries. This is an old issue, of course, but then OT offers
a platform for  new analyses of old observations.

Specifically, I'm interested in the integration of an affix into the
root/stem/PrWd in relation to its segmental make-up. In Hebrew, a rather trivial
example, the crucial  factor is whether the segment that attaches to the stem is a
consonant or a vowel.

Other languages differentiate prefixes-suffixes, may integrate some affixes but not
others, phonotactic restrictions may cause infixation etc. I'm interested in
collecting material to that effect from across languages, and so ask any of you
who's working on or is well familiar with phenomena of that kind to mail a short
description with examples, if possible.

If there are any interesting results I will of course summarize them and post
them to the Linguist List.

Thanks,

Dafna Graf

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Phonology
Subject Language(s): Hebrew (HBR)


	
-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:01:39
From: Liana Lorigo < liana at cedar.buffalo.edu >
Subject: Written Script Speed/Arabic

	Dear Linguist subscribers,

I found two web pages saying that Arabic is the fastest-written script in the
world, one of which mentioned a study in which scholars in major scripts
hand-wrote text for periods of time, and output volumes were compared.
However, these pages did not give proper references to support this claim.

Does anyone know how I could find such a reference, or something similar?  I am
especially interested in the Arabic script.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Liana Lorigo

Research Scientist
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
State University of New York at Buffalo

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): Arabic, Standard (ABV)





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