Fwd: [RNLD] dictionary methods

[Nick Thieberger]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hugh Paterson <hugh_paterson at sil.org>
Date: 20 February 2015 at 16:39
Subject: Re: [RNLD] dictionary methods
To: Peter Austin <pa2 at soas.ac.uk>
Cc: Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au>, "r-n-l-d at lists.unimelb.edu.au" <
r-n-l-d at lists.unimelb.edu.au>


Becky Paterson has a presentation next week in Hawaii about gamification
applied to Rapid words methodologies.

- Hugh

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Peter Austin <pa2 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:

> WeSay is a nice implementation of Moe's method that can be used by
> literate native speakers -- it also enables audio recording of words and
> example sentences.
>
> Monolingual defining was a method much favoured by the late Ken Hale as a
> way to generate more vocabulary and has been used by successfully by
> several people I know.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 20 February 2015 at 12:08, Nick Thieberger <thien at unimelb.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi RNLD list,
>>
>> I'm going to be working with speakers to add words to an existing
>> dictionary of some 2,800 headwords. I'd be interested to hear of methods
>> for finding new words that are not in the dictionary that you may have
>> found useful. I know about Rapid Words collection (
>> http://www.rapidwords.net/) and Ron Moe's Dictionary Development
>> Process.
>>
>> I'd also like to generate a list of all possible words given the
>> phonotactics and phonemic inventory, does anyone know of any existing
>> systems for doing that?
>>
>> I'l summarise responses if you want to write to me off-list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>
>
>
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