LINGUIST List 2.607

Thu 03 Oct 1991

Qs: Adverbials, Priming, IPA, Mongolian

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  • Jim Scobbie, Query
  • Herb Stahlke, Another quotation to trace
  • Geoffrey Russom, Re: 2.596 Whenever
  • "(offrey Russom, Re: 2.597 For Your Information
  • Kenjiro Matsuda, Literatures on Priming?
  • Michel Eytan LILoL, IPA fonts
  • Henry Rogers, query Mongolian

    Message 1: Query

     Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 11:06:43 PDT
    From: Jim Scobbie <scobbieCsli.Stanford.EDU>
    Subject: Query
    Can anyone help me get in touch with Masayoshi Shibatani? Also, did these papers ever appear? Does anyone have them? They were cited in 1973 but I don't know if they were ever completed. Crothers (John) and Shibatani (1973+) Surface phonetic constraints, archiphonemes and the description of vowel harmony. ms. C & S (1973+) Review of The sound pattern of English. ms. Many thanks -- oo -- James M. Scobbie: Dept of Linguistics, Stanford University, CA 94305-2150

    Message 2: Another quotation to trace

     Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1991 08:27 EST
    From: Herb Stahlke <00HFSTAHLKEBSUVAX1.BITNET>
    Subject: Another quotation to trace
    Now that we've pretty much exhausted, and possibly solved the "dialect with an army and a navy" question, I have another one to post. I have heard the statement Syntax is ninety percent phonetics. attributed to Wallace Chafe, but I haven't found it in his writings, which I also have not scanned comprehensively. Did Wallace Chafe say/write this, and, if so, where? If not, who did and where? Herb Stahlke Ball State University

    Message 3: Re: 2.596 Whenever

    Date: Tue, 01 Oct 91 08:39:05 EDT
    From: Geoffrey Russom <EL403015brownvm.brown.edu>
    Subject: Re: 2.596 Whenever
    Speaking of dialectal time adverbials (whenever), does anybody know about the distribution of "anymore" used in sentences without negation (like "still")? -- Rick Russom

    Message 4: Re: 2.597 For Your Information

    Date: Tue, 01 Oct 91 11:03:43 BST
    From: "(offrey Russom <MFCEPDDcms.manchester-computing-centre.ac.uk>
    Subject: Re: 2.597 For Your Information
    Dale Savage refers to a round of discussion 'awhile back' about word processors and auto numbering of examples. As author of a PC add-on for doing precisely that job, and as someone often asked to do a Mac version, I would be very interested to see that discussion, which I assume predates my subscription to Linguist. Can anyone (moderators, Dale Savage, whoever) send me the relevant file(s)? Thanks. David Denison (d.denison uk.ac.man)

    Message 5: Literatures on Priming?

     Date: Mon, 30 Sep 91 21:45:15 -0400
    From: Kenjiro Matsuda <matsudalinc.cis.upenn.edu>
    Subject: Literatures on Priming?
    Hi. Could anyone let me know any relevant literatures on priming? My main interest is in seeing the priming factor in language variation (mainly in morphology) in natural discourse. The only paper I know in this area is "Constraints on Agentless Passive" by Weiner and Labov (1982), but I assume that the topic has been expplored more extensively in other areas, notably in psycholinguistics. I welcome references for any literatures in any fields. Thanks a lot. Ken Matsuda Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania matsudalinc.cis.upenn.edu

    Message 6: IPA fonts

     Date: Wed, 2 Oct 91 10:23:54 GMT
    From: Michel Eytan LILoL <mesuzuka.u-strasbg.fr>
    Subject: IPA fonts
    in a previous message I have corrected the error in the name of the ftp server, that should read "aisun1.ai.uga.edu". However, I promised to send these files directly to people who ask for it. Unfortunately, there is a snag: these files are PC-executables, whereas e-mail consists of ascii (text-only) files; sent via e-mail they could get messed up. I shall send them via POPmail, a PC-mail application. I need however to : 1. learn to use the application; 2. wait for all the requests to arrive, since I do not want to do it piecemeal but in one fell swoop. Please send me a personal message if you want it via e-mail (ie POPmail), I promise to send it in a few days' time.

    Message 7: query Mongolian

     Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1991 14:25:28 -0400
    From: Henry Rogers <rogersepas.utoronto.ca>
    Subject: query Mongolian
    Is anyone familiar with writing Mongolian on a Macintosh? I would be + interested in fonts and a suitable operating system. There is a small group of people here at Toronto working on Mongolian, and we would appreciate any help. Mongolian is written with a cursive alphabet in lines running from top to bottom with the first line starting at the top left and subsequent lines moving to the right. The best solution so far seems to be a Hebrew/Arabic word processor with the letters entered on their side. Naturally Mongolian speakers/writers find writing sideways odd.The output must be turned 90 degrees to be read. The right-to-left input puts the lines in the correct order. A Chinese/Japanese system with vertical input puts the lines in the wrong order. Further,it is mono-spaced, not suitable for a cursive writing system. Does anyone know of a suitable operating system runing from top to bottom starting at the left and allowing proportional spacing? Also, does anyone have a Mongolian font? The only one we have is bit-mapped and has a rather heavy old-fashioned 19th-century look? I realise that this problem may seem a touch recherche, but it is comforting to think that technology is allowing us to think about such things nowadays. Thanks, Henry Rogers Department of Linguistics University of Toronto rogersepas.utoronto.ca rogersepas.toronto.edu