Archive for April, 2004
04-04-26
Tags: Original URL: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/8/8-1208.html Message 1: Summary: Double-Dutch and Youthese / Pig LatinDate: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 18:04:03 +0100From: Waruno Mahdi <mahdi@fhi-berlin.mpg.de>Subject: Summary: Double-Dutch and Youthese / Pig LatinNobuko Koyama-Murakami:Japanese ba-bi-bu-be-bo language (or lingo) was used by teenagers. Ba-bi-bu-be-bo language was specifically used when they ….… were […]
Original Title: LINGUIST List 8.1208: Double-Dutch and Youthese / Pig Latin
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04-04-26
Tags: Original URL: http://pc0880.germanistik-kunst.uni-marburg.de/~roa/OT-TEXTS-archive/272-0798/ Title: Author(s): Comments: ROA : Carlos Eduardo Piñeros, Ph.D.
Original Title: ROA-272
Described 3 language games in Spanish and offered OT-based explanations.
Prosodic Morphology in Spanish: Constraint Interaction in Word-Formation [Dissertation]
Carlos Eduardo Pineros
289 pages in 12 files (see abstract for details). Requires SILManuscriptIPA93 font
272-0798Abstract:
Prosodic Morphology in Spanish:
Constraint Interaction in Word-Formation
The Ohio State University, 1998
Professor, Fernando Martnez-Gil, Adviser
In word-blending, the […]
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04-04-26
Tags: Original URL: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/6/6-1319.html LINGUIST List 6.1319
Original Title: LINGUIST List 6.1319: Whistled speech
Wed Sep 27 1995
Sum: Whistled speech
Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <dizdar@tam2000.tamu.edu>
WHY WHISTLE?- Essentially, to allow shepherds to communicate across narrowvalleys when ordinary language would be inadequate. Distances,normally 1-2 km, can reach 5 km or more.- It is also used in Africa and Nepal […]
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04-04-26
Tags:Research Original URL: http://b1.ezboard.com/fwordoriginsorgfrm2.showMessage?topicID=298.topic
Original Title: Luddlings - www.ezboard.com
Ludling= Latin ludus (game) + lingua (language)
Better ludle than never > no currency in the Philippines….
I do in fact get one google hit referring to "Tagalog ludling" (one d): www.linguistlist.org/issu…-1208.html
Of course, now we have "boontling" to deal with too!
Actually, this article pointed me at the 3 gods of ludlism: […]
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04-04-26
Tags: Original URL: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/binsted97childrens.html Children´s Evaluation of Computer-Generated Punning Riddles (1997) (Make Corrections) (6 citations)Kim Binsted, Helen Pain, Graeme Ritchie
Original Title: Children´s Evaluation of Computer-Generated Punning Riddles - Binsted, Pain, Ritchie (ResearchIndex)
Ya gotta be kidding … computer scientists studying children´s sense of (computer) humor? I thought that´s the job of developmental psychologists. … well, somebody is doing their job.
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04-04-25
Tags: Original URL: http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=h7e8jf21gr1twvb84r2p&referrer=parent&backto=issue,2,5;journal,7,8;linkingpublicationresults,id:103815,1 Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Original Title: Taylor & Francis Group - Article
This is the first and only OT paper on language games (in this case actually errors) that I could find. And the paper is not available for access.
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis AS, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Issue: […]
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04-04-25
Tags: Original URL: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~tesar/
Original Title: Bruce B. Tesar
Assuming an OP grammar and strict dominance among constraints, Tesar has shown that a learner can converge in N(N-1) iterations using a constraint demotion algorithm, compared to the standard estimate N!.
In addition, in his 2000 chapter (Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition, ed by Dekkers, etal), Optimality and strict […]
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04-04-23
Tags: Original URL: http://www.spotme.ch/ SpotMe is a “Conference Navigator” — it uses RF signal to scan other SpotMe devices around you, track where people are, exchange information, etc. Won´t fit the purpose of real-time recording of children´s interactions, but it´s interesing.
Original Title: Spotme Conference Navigator
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04-04-23
Tags: Problem found and solved. As always, it took me 5 hours last night to pounder (plus washing dishes and mopping the floor), and 1 second — the first moment I opened my eyes — this morning to figure out.
The previous code incorrectedly scaled the PDF by the aforementioned scaling factor (ir), which in effect inflated […]
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04-04-23
Tags: There is a puzzle in the fit_lgm1.m code: the component Gaussian distributions are not plotted at the right position. Their modes do not correspond to the means, as illustrated below.
For reasons I have forgotton, the code uses a strange conversion — it calculates a scaling factor between the “logtime” and “lineartime”, and multiplies that […]
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04-04-23
Tags: Code used in the testing…
dur1=ym.dur(ym.cond==1); out=fit_lgm1(dur1(find(dur1>0 & dur1<1000))/1000, 3, ´dur1´);n=10;r1=mynormrnd(out.mu(1,1), sqrt(out.var(1,1,1)), 1, round(out.alpha(1,1)*length(dur1)*n));r2=mynormrnd(out.mu(2,1), sqrt(out.var(1,1,2)), 1, round(out.alpha(2,1)*length(dur1)*n));r3=mynormrnd(out.mu(3,1), sqrt(out.var(1,1,3)), 1, round(out.alpha(3,1)*length(dur1)*n));simudur=[r1, r2, r3];simu=round(exp(simudur)*500)/500;%figure; hist(simu, 500)fit_lgm1(simu(find(simu>0 & simu<1000)), 3, ´simulated data´)
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04-04-23
Tags: Testing the reliability of the GMM algorithm (http://www.ics.uci.edu/~icadez/code/gmm/gmm.html) in estimating parameters of mixture models. What I did was the following: 2. Based on the parameters, […]
1. Based on some empirical data, I first estimated the 3-component Log-Gaussian Mixture model parameters. The estimation itself is not that reliable. The following are two runs on the same data.
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04-04-22
Tags: Original URL: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AALL/faculty/haeyoung Hae-Young Kim Title: Office Location: Office Phone: Office Fax Email Address: Web Page: Education PhD University of Hawaii, 2000
Original Title: AALL: Faculty
Assistant Professor of the Practice
306 Alexander Avenue
919 660 4364, 919 668 2603
919 681 7871
haeyoung@duke.edu
Research Interests
Her research and teaching interests focus on bilingualism, discourse grammar, second language development, and curriculum and materials design for Korean learners. Her publications have […]
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04-04-21
Tags: Original URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?unc=1041696088 Zevin J.D. & Seidenberg M.S. (2004). Age-of-acquisition effects in reading aloud: Tests of cumulative frequency and frequency trajectory. Memory & Cognition, 32, 31-38Abstract: Several studies have reported that the age at which a word is learned affects […]
Original Title: Ingenta: article summary — Age-of-acquisition effects in reading aloud: Tests of cumulative frequency and frequency trajectory
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04-04-21
Tags: Original URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?unc=1041696077 Asymmetries in the processing of Arabic digits and number words
Original Title: Ingenta: article summary — Asymmetries in the processing of Arabic digits and number words
Duh.
Memory & Cognition, 32, 164-171Damian M.F. Abstract: Numbers can be represented as Arabic digits (”6″) or as number words (”six”). The present study investigated potential processing differences between the two notational […]
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04-04-21
Tags: Original URL: http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=HtmlAndDynamicPagesDoc How dynamic pages work So how do dynamic pages work? Simple, in dynamic pages an invisible iframe is used along with the page. This invisible frame is reloaded at the interval specified as the page refresh rate. […]
Original Title: TikiWiki : HtmlAndDynamicPagesDoc
TikiWiki allows inserting HTML codes into a page. The following trik is interesting.
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04-04-20
Tags: Orange County has a very cool GIS system, down to my house. Guess which one it is?
http://gis.co.orange.nc.us/website/ocgis/home/map.asp?Cmd=select&tool=select&x=1982527.4500985425&y=804304.9486626098
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04-04-19
Tags: Original URL: http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ MT-Blacklist
Original Title: MT-Blacklist - A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin
I was boombarded with over 200 spam comments over the last weekend. I was about to write a SQL to delete them all but found this — it does everything that I want, and beautifully. A Must for MT bloggers.
A Movable Type plugin to eradicate […]
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04-04-18
Tags: Original URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/8900 A Starpack is a special version of a Starkit. A Starpack combines a Starkit with a Tclkit runtime into a single file. Some people want only to know “How to create my first Starpack“.
Original Title: How to create my first Starpack
Starpacks are standalone executables which run out of the box, making them even […]
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04-04-18
Tags: Original URL: http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/wiki/25 Tkoutline is a single pane, cross-platform outline editor written in Tcl/Tk . With this editor, information can be structured […]
Original Title: Features
This TkOutLine program reminds me of David Weiner´s earlier programs and his later PIKE. Sounds like a good little tool.
I wonder if this is something one can replication in IE using DHTML alone.
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