16.2753, Qs: English Allomorphic Variation; Speech Recognition

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Subject: 16.2753, Qs: English Allomorphic Variation; Speech Recognition

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1)
Date: 25-Sep-2005
From: Sue Fox < suefox.home at ntlworld.com >
Subject: Allomorphic Variation in the English Article System 

2)
Date: 14-Sep-2005
From: Julia Festman < julia.festman at nat.uni-magdeburg.de >
Subject: Speech Recognition Software for English and Russian 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:38:22
From: Sue Fox < suefox.home at ntlworld.com >
Subject: Allomorphic Variation in the English Article System 
 

I am investigating variable allomorphy in the English article system among
adolescents in London, where I have found high levels of lack of allomorphy
among some groups.

For example, 'a apple' is quite frequent as is 'the apple' where 'the' ends in a
schwa as opposed to a high front vowel. This would seem to be an innovation
among young people here as it does not appear to be present in the speech of
older Londoners but I am interested to know of other varieties of English (both
in the UK and around the anglophone world) where this lack of allomorphy occurs.
I am aware of work on the distribution of 'the' before vowels in NZE.

References to any literature on this feature would also be appreciated. A
summary of responses will be posted.

Sue Fox
Dept of Modern Languages
Queen Mary College, University of London 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 10:38:25
From: Julia Festman < julia.festman at nat.uni-magdeburg.de >
Subject: Speech Recognition Software for English and Russian 

	

Is the 'Dragon Naturally Speaking 8 preferred or professionally' really as
good as they say? Is anyone working with it to get interviews transcribed?

We are looking for a software for faster transcription of interviews in
German and Russian.   Is there something similar on the market for Russian? 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics


 



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