LINGUIST List 2.668

Thu 17 Oct 1991

Qs: Insertion, 'Come' and 'bring', Lg essays, parser

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  • "Julia Aymerich, query
  • , Query intrusive r-insertion
  • Adam Kilgarriff, Query: `Come' and `bring'.
  • Larry Gillick, Re: filled pauses
  • Andrew Garrett, Re: 2.661 Word Processing
  • Peter, Essays on Language
  • Jeff Turley, Re: 2.667 'He goes'
  • "Paik,Woojin", FIDDITCH Don Hindle's deterministic parser

    Message 1: query

     Date: 14 Oct 91 19:27:00 EST
    From: "Julia Aymerich <JAYMERICHguvax.georgetown.edu>
    Subject: query
    Does anybody know about bibliography on Spanish clitics in Machine Translation systems or NLP systems? I am also interested in the treatment of clitics in LFG. Any (ANY) suggestions will be highly appreciated. Julia.

    Message 2: Query intrusive r-insertion

     Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 17:15 MET
    From: <RICHARDcelex.kun.nl>
    Subject: Query intrusive r-insertion
    In J.C. Wells' "Accents of English"(1982), volume 1, p. 226, he gives the rule for r-insertion in RP English (both linking /r/ and intrusive /r/) as: 0 -> r / [-high V]__ #0 V (i.e. a zero can become an /r/ in the environment of a non-high vowel and a word or morpheme boundary followed by a vowel, this if my set of character codes turns out different from yours on your screens). This rule made me wonder about the position of the /u:/, as in 'groom'. To my humble non-native ears, r-insertion after /u:/ appears to be possible, even though it is a close vowel, as in 'you and me' /ju:rnmi:/ and 'hue and cry' /hju:rnkraI/. Am I right in assuming this? If so, can we perhaps posit a rule preceding r-insertion that diphthongizes the /u:/ to /U/, so that Wells' rule still holds (since it does include centring diphthongs)? Does anyone know how common intrusive r-insertion is in RP? Is it the predominant phenomenon in environments defined by the rule or not? Richard Piepenbrock

    Message 3: Query: `Come' and `bring'.

     Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 17:53:32 +0100
    From: Adam Kilgarriff <adamkcogs.sussex.ac.uk>
    Subject: Query: `Come' and `bring'.
    I once heard a reference to some research which compared the phrasal constructions and idioms involving `come' and `bring', and concluded that the patterns were very similar for the two verbs. Does this produce any flicker of recognition? If so, could you give me any further clues which might help me locate the work. Thank you, Adam Kilgarriff University of Sussex, England

    Message 4: Re: filled pauses

     Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 8:30:02 PDT
    From: Larry Gillick <dragonisi.edu>
    Subject: Re: filled pauses
    I seem to recall that Jim (James D.) McCawley fills pauses with [ai], homophonous with "I", leading the unsuspecting listener to expect an agreeing VP to follow. If this is a feature of his native dialect, how do its speakers avoid similar confusion? Jim? Mark A. Mandel (even if the header says Larry Gillick) Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-7670 320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160 USA

    Message 5: Re: 2.661 Word Processing

    Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 08:33:16 PDT
    From: Andrew Garrett <andrewgCsli.Stanford.EDU>
    Subject: Re: 2.661 Word Processing
    Apropos all this, does anyone know of phonetic and/or other linguistic fonts which are scalable (e.g. Type 1) and available for Adobe Type Manager for Windows (or indeed otherwise suitable for use in Windows; I use Word)? Andrew Garrett

    Message 6: Essays on Language

     Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1991 09:42 CDT
    From: Peter <ENGLADJetson.UH.EDU>
    Subject: Essays on Language
    In an effort to get more undergraduates into our linguistics courses (I am in the English Department at the University of Houston), I will be teaching a course officially entitled "Non-Fiction Prose" for sophomores. I don't think I can get away with teaching linguistics as such, but I can certainly assign solid articles dealing with language (and possibly larger selections; I have already ordered Labov"s "The Study of Non-Standard English" for the course). The selections need to be defensible as essays, in case my colleagues in literature ask, and I have added the obligatory articles by Orwell, etc. for their benefit, but I am looking for good essays that are linguistically sound and readable by sophomores. Suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

    Message 7: Re: 2.667 'He goes'

    Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 12:11:08 MDT
    From: Jeff Turley <HRCJSTBYUVM.bitnet>
    Subject: Re: 2.667 'He goes'
    Does anyone know of equivalents to the verbum dicendi "he goes", that is where a verb of motion has been thus grammaticalized? A friend from Madrid gives the peninsular Spanish "se pone" 'he puts himself', as in "se pone: no quiero!" 'he goes: I don't want to!" (This periphrasis also means 'become', as in "se puso triste" 'he got sad.')

    Message 8: FIDDITCH Don Hindle's deterministic parser

     Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 15:51:03 -0400
    From: "Paik,Woojin" <wpaikmailbox.syr.edu>
    Subject: FIDDITCH Don Hindle's deterministic parser
    Can anybody share information about Don Hindle's deterministic parser called FIDDITCH? I believe this parser was used for the Penn Treebank Project. Is it possible to obtain for free of charge for the research purpose? Thanks, Woojin