Archive for June, 2004

04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00AEP6688M;view=toc;sid=bc5370327f26da7aeed6097f44032e54;iel=2;c=nietz
Original Title: 19th Century Schoolbooks
 
UPitts digital collection of old schoolbooks is wonderful — not only can you see the scanned pages you can also do full-text searches. The only downside — no way to download to local HD.
 

Title:
Old textbooks: spelling, grammar, reading, arithmetic, geography, American history, civil government, physiology, penmanship, art, music, as […]

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04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: http://www.lgib.gov.uk/eis/1999/dec/pubs/commission.htm
Original Title: Initial teaching of reading in the European Union
Any interesting comparative study of reading curricula in some EU countries. Attention was paid to things like hours of instruction rather then actual teaching methods. Nonetheless an interesting book.

Studies: Initial teaching of reading in the European Union / European Commission.- Luxembourg: Office for […]

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04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: http://www.edstud.ox.ac.uk/NF_PRESTIGE/NF_home.htm
Original Title: European Union and Education
 
General info on several countries, with bibilographies. Geared toward policy/law.

European Union and Education
Introduction
There is no European educational policy  per se. The management  and structure of general education is considered as a matter of national policy in the Member States (Sprokkereef, 1993). Education is seen in relation to its […]

">PRESTIGE: European Union and Education

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04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: http://www.eurydice.org/Eurybase/frameset_eurybase.html
Original Title: Eurybase

EuryBase is an encyclopedia on European education systems. “Books” on each country are available online. General information is made available, but it is not specific to reading at all.

The information network on education in Europe, Eurydice has since 1980 been one of the strategic mechanisms established by the European Commission and […]

">EuryBase: European education systems encyclopedia

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04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: too long to display
Original Title: Your basic search for “phonics”, unsorted in 19th Century Schoolbooks Collection resulted in 8 matching terms in 2 full texts
 
Phonics was mentioned casually in this Edwards (1867) book. It is clear that the exercises are what we would call today Phonological Awareness.

Author:  Edwards, Richard, 1822-1908.
Title:  Analytical fourth reader […]

">Phonics means Phonological awareness in 1867?

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04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: http://www.lesley.edu/academic_centers/hood/stokes.html
Original Title: Origins of Phonics
 
http://www.lesley.edu/academic_centers/hood/stokes.html http://www.lesley.edu/academic_centers/hood/currents/v1n2/stokes.html
“The phonic method…is over three hundred and fifty years old.” F.W. Parker, 1894.

(617) 349-8226Hood Childrens Literacy Project29 Everett Street / Cambridge, MA 02138-2790eruthstr@mail.lesley.edu
CURRENTS IN LITERACY
Understanding the Phonics Debates: Part IBy William T. Stokes
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When I first became interested in early literacy twenty years ago, a colleague recommended […]

">William T. Stokes : Origins of Phonics

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04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: http://www.reading.org/dir/sig/sigphonics.html
Original Title: Special Interest Group: Phonics
I didnt know IRA has a sig on Phonics (I should have) AND they have a website … well, had. Its down. But just to pique your interest, a snapshot recovered from Googles cache is attached in the More… section.

Special Interest Group:Phonics
Purpose:To provide a supportive forum where reading […]

">IRA sig on Phonics (and thir dysfunctional website)

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04-06-11

Tags: Original URL: http://alpha.furman.edu/~wrogers/phonemes/
Original Title: THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH PHONEMES
 
A wonderful resource on English sound AND SPELLING changes. Not much background given, but data, data, data… (well, not in the psychology sense ). Best of all, its GPL (Copyright 2000).
 
To get some flavors…

THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH PHONEMES
This Website was constructed by William E. Rogers of […]

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04-06-09

Tags: Original URL: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail-mime.example.php
Original Title: PEAR :: Manual: Mail_Mime - Example
 
seems to provide a potential solution to saving MHTML format. Use the HTTP package to retrieve HTML pages and images, then pass them to the Mail-MIME package to generate a MIME file, which should be what MHTML is all about. Tried with this minimal example, and […]

">PEAR & MHTML
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04-06-09

Tags: Original URL: http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/HTML/Sample-Chapter-HTML-4.01-Programmers-Reference/5/
Original Title: Sample Chapter: HTML 4.01 Programmers Reference
 
This is another attempt on my part to find ways to do inline images in HTML — meaning to include image data in an HTML without referring to an external image file. With HTML 4.01 compliant browsers such as Netscape, the proper way to do this […]

">Data URI won’t work in IE
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04-06-09

Tags: Original URL: http://www.codecomments.com/WSH/message192878.html
Original Title: programmatically capture web page as internet archive (MHT)
 
Looks very interesting and useful. Where do you run this script? Can I run it from an ActiveX engine within PHP, Perl, or Tcl?

 Re: programmatically capture web page as internet archive (MHT)On Win2000+:

dim message, conf, stream
set message = CreateObject(”CDO.Message”)
set conf = CreateObject(”CDO.Configuration”)
set message.Configuration = […]

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04-06-09

Tags: This is interesting —
the title of this blog post is all cap on the screen, but when I copy-paste it, it becomes regular:
Those obstinant n´s
So when copying, IE get the source before the CSS (I bet it´s smallcap) transformation?

">Cap or not to cap
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04-06-09

Tags: Original URL: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001033.html
Original Title: Language Log: Those obstinant n´s
 
Becky Treiman´s research seems to go the othe direction, as far as beginning spellers are concerned. Young children would often omit the medial nasal in spelling, something like /bank/ -> /bak/. Why would adults do the opposite? Just because they, for the same reason, weren´t sure whether […]

">Those obstinant n’s
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04-06-08

Tags: Original URL: http://www.eder.us/projects/simple_equation/
Original Title: Simple Equation
 
Before everything supports MathML, this seems to be a great alternative.

Simple Equation
Introduction
One of the biggest obstacles to using mathematical expressions on the web is that the user currently needs to worry about layout. Web users should not have to learn a layout engine.
The class is built as a recursive parser. […]

">MathML->Graphics server

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04-06-08

Tags: Original URL: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=713
Original Title: VIEW ROA 428
 
Or mybe the GEN in our head don´t to generate more candicates than atoms in the universe?

 

428-1200 
The Initial and Final States: Theoretical Implications and Experimental Explorations of Richness of the Base

Authors 
Paul Smolensky Johns Hopkins University <smolensky@jhu.edu> [Details]Lisa Davidson New York University <lisa.davidson@nyu.edu> [Details]Peter Jusczyk <jusczyk@jhu.edu> [Details]

Comment 
51 pages. To appear […]

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04-06-08

Tags: Original URL: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=527
Original Title: VIEW ROA 454
 
Download the Word version; the PDF has incorrect characters for IPA symbols.

454-0801 
Mandarin retroflex suffixation: an OT account

Author 
Ma Qiuwu <maquwu@public.tpt.tj.cn> [Details]

Comment 
Word2000

Length 
34 pp.

Files 

 WORD 333kb (gzip 70Kb) 
 PDF 747kbThe retroflex suffixation is one of the interesting phonological phenomena in Beijing Mandarin and has engendered much discussion. But most of the discussions are […]

">Mandarin retroflex suffixation: an OT account

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04-06-08

Tags: Original URL: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=536
Original Title: VIEW ROA 459
 
I´ve been worried that the oil price will shake the economic foundation, but now something worse is happening. If GEN were to be proven impossible, wouldn´t OT fall?
 
GEN is always troublesome to me, coming from psychology. I understand the argument for the “richness of the base”. However, it´s […]

">Correspondence Theory: More Candidates Than Atoms in the Universe
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04-06-08

Tags: Original URL: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=577
Original Title: VIEW ROA 477
 
I was telling Reiko and Jen Smith on last Sunday´s party that Jessie has been saying “broked” and “wented” for a long time. Is this overgeneralization or overtensing?

477-1101 
Overtensing within Optimality Theory

Author 
Joseph Stemberger <stemberg@interchange.ubc.ca> [Details]

 PDF 357kb
This paper addresses errors that have become known in the developmental literature as overtensing errors, such […]

">Overtensing within Optimality Theory

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04-06-08

Tags: Original URL: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=818
Original Title: VIEW ROA 485
 
Not applicable to Phonological awareness tasks or language games as they typically have empty morphology.

485-1201 
Optimal Paradigms

Author 
John J. McCarthy University of Massachusetts, Amherst <jmccarthy@linguist.umass.edu> [Details]

Comment 

Originally posted 1/2002; revised 4/2003
PDF 370kbTransderivational Correspondence and Uniform Exponence are two recent theories of surface resemblances among morphologically related words. This article describes the […]

">Optimal Paradigms

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04-06-08

Tags: Original URL: http://roa.rutgers.edu/list.php3?start=554&num=7&detail=off
Original Title: ROA LIST 554-548
 
Now this one is close to useful.
 
I know what I am about to say here is not linguistically related to sandi, but nonetheless digression is manditory in blogging.
 
Going back to my graduate study days in UIUC, my old friend from daycare, Stephen Chu, claimed — over beers — […]

">Chinese tone sandhi:: And Steve Chu’s HeNan trick
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