Archive for March, 2007
07-03-25
Tags:Chinese Linguistics OddsnEnds
I have read Victor Mair’s essay danger + opportunity ≠ crisis some time ago and agree with his general point that folk etymology is a dangerous thing (that’s the first character above, wēi). But there was always a lingering dissenting voice in the back of my mind.
Mark Liberman (LanguageLog) picked on […]
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07-03-25
Tags:creative spelling English Linguistics OddsnEnds phonology I don’t know how it did it, but today gMail inspected an email conversation between me and my graduate student and decided we needed to see speech threapists about the problem of /r/. So it provided the following link in its ads section. SayItRight.org > The […]
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07-03-23
Tags:English orthography phonology Consonant length - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In English phonology, consonant length is not distinctive. For instance, ‘baggage’ is pronounced /bægɪdʒ/, not /bæggɪdʒ/ or /bægːɪdʒ/. Phonetic gemination occurs marginally.
It occurs between words when the last consonant in a given word and the first consonant in the following word are either fricatives, […]
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07-03-21
Tags:Paperville Research The Questia Online Library has excerpt from the following chapter, where it was claimed that 2nd graders were not affected by space-fillers. I am not sure the study was actually published — have to track it down. Beginning readers do spend a lot more time on refixating the same words, in which case […]
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07-03-18
Tags:Computing
A new machine came with Vista Home, which I don’t have time to replace. I put it to work and put TightVNC on it trying to remote control it. All I could see is black screen. The problem is sure enough a Vista one. See Workaround to Run VNC Server in Windows Vista » My […]
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(Computing) | 5
07-03-16
Tags:Education Linguistics OT phonological awareness reading Research
Reading Acquisition (1992) by Philip B. Gough,Linnea C. Ehri,Rebecca Treiman has a number of papers that are quite revealing, 15 later.
Ch1. Brian Byrne summarized ove 10 small studies on various attempts to teach prereading children simple words and to test transfers. It is […]
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07-03-14
Tags:English Linguistics misspelling OddsnEnds punctuation Research spelling Diversions
NPR : The ‘Literary’ Legacy of Lord Timothy Dexter
The ‘Literary’ Legacy of Lord Timothy Dexter
Weekend Edition Saturday, January 22, 2005 · Jan. 22 is "Lord" Timothy Dexter’s birthday. The self-proclaimed royal was an early American eccentric. His 1802 memoir A Pickle for […]
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07-03-14
Tags:eye movement History Linguistics OddsnEnds Research A couple of things from Parkes (1993), which costs $838 at Amazon! This book is a gem, but luckly I don’t have to own it to read.
Parkes, M.B. (1993). Pause and Effect: Punctuation in the West. University of California Press. Retrieved March 14, 2007, […]
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07-03-13
Tags:Education reading Research Teaching
ExpectMore.gov: Reading First State Grants from Office of management and Budget at the White House rated Reading First as Effective. It’s the only part of NCLB that got this rating.
Related, or may be unrelated, Mark Liberman at languagelog posted a message from Ken DeRosa, who dismissed ReadingFirst’s exclusion […]
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(Research, Teaching, Education) | 3
07-03-12
Tags:bibster CiteULike Computing firefox OddsnEnds p2p Research zotero AllPeers Beta | Firefox Add-ons: The filefox add-on has been making news lately. My interest with it is to set up a P2P network for sharing bibliographic info and PDF files within my research group and colleagues. Bibster […]
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(Computing, Research, Odds'n'Ends) | 0
07-03-12
Tags:Linguistics Mayan OddsnEnds orthography OT Research spelling
Maya Hieroglyph Dictionary by Peter Mathews and Péter Bíró includes not only Mayan words and syllables, the older Thompson’s Catalogue of Maya Signs, but also a number of brief intro to the language(s) and orthography.
MAYA HIEROGLYPH DICTIONARY© Peter Mathews and Péter BíróDrawings […]
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(Research, Odds'n'Ends, Linguistics) | 0
07-03-11
Tags:child Education Japanese kana Linguistics phonological awareness Research This paper studies how learning kana may change children’s segmentation skills — the shift from syllable-based to mora-based. Inagaki, K., Hatano, G., & Otake, T. (2000). The effect of Kana literacy acquisition on the speech segmentation unit used by Japanese young children. Journal […]
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07-03-11
Tags:Computing eye movements google Linguistics reading Research Official Google Research Blog: All Our N-gram are Belong to You announced, some time back, the availability of n-gram counts from their Jan 2006 data: We believe that the entire research community can benefit from access to such massive amounts of data. It will advance […]
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(Computing, Research, Linguistics) | 0
07-03-11
Tags:Education google india reading Teaching TV Google.org was established about a year ago. According to its frontpage:
Welcome to Google.org – the philanthropic arm of Google […]
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(Teaching, Education) | 0
07-03-10
Tags:English Linguistics OT Research spelling
Geoffrey Chaucer ’s spelling has been described as inconsistent, particularly with regard to the final -e. The question in my mind is, in a time when there was no standardized spelling (??) or dictionary and spelling was to transcribe the language, if Chaucer and his contemporaries’ spelling […]
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07-03-10
Tags:creative spelling dialect English Linguistics phonology Research Find in a Library: The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool
This 2006 book ($750) contains maps of dialects, etc. Would be useful to understand the phonology of NC, where we are doing our spelling […]
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(Research, Linguistics) | 0
07-03-10
Tags:English Linguistics orthography phonology Research Oostendrop’s "Intro to OT" paper (pdf) talks about one peculiarity of English phonology — the TSL: n/ei/tion + al-> n/ae/tional. He concluded that It is not very easy to describe the process in a ‘natural’ way. As a matter of course, the formulation of TSL in […]
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(Research, Linguistics) | 0
07-03-07
Tags:Computing OddsnEnds Google has a Patent Search function, which I tried today with keyword "eye movements". Here’s something intereting, a patent filed by IBM in 2000, issued in 2005: Method and system for the recognition of… - Google Patents
AbstractAccurately recognizing from eye-gaze patterns when a user is reading, skimming, or scanning on a display filled with […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends) | 0
07-03-06
Tags:Linguistics Research
The Iberian scripts is a mixture of alphabetic and syllabic symbols. What interests me is what are kept syllabic:
Southern Iberian script
According to Pierre Swiggers (p. 109 in Daniels & Bright, 1996):
The vawels and all the continuants are represented by single signs, whereas the stops are written together with a following vowel.
I suspect […]
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(Research, Linguistics) | 1
07-03-03
Tags:Education Linguistics Research Mark Liberman speaks today on Whole Language — a bit late in the game but nonetheless informative. I said he’s late because, with NCLB and Reading First, it’s hard to find folks who identify themselves as WL practioners. The current buzz word is "balanced approaches," as if a combination of WL […]
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