job posting - apple-iss research center | content - length : 3386 apple-iss research center a us $ 10 million joint venture between apple computer inc . and the institute of systems science of the national university of singapore , located in singapore , is looking for : a senior speech scientist - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - … | |
nan | lang classification grimes , joseph e . and barbara f . grimes ; ethnologue language family index ; pb . isbn : 0-88312 - 708 - 3 ; vi , 116 pp . ; $ 14 . 00 . summer institute of linguistics . this companion volume to ethnologue : languages of the world , twelfth edition lists language families of … | |
query : letter frequencies for text identification | i am posting this inquiry for sergei atamas ( satamas @ umabnet . ab . umd . edu ) , a research associate at the university of maryland at baltimore . his field is molecular biology , and his work involves comparing dna strings using various algorithms . i do n't understand the details well enough t… | |
risk | a colleague and i are researching the differing degrees of risk perceived by our hong kong students in different contexts where spoken english is required . we would be interested to find out more about research in the area of risk-taking in language learning . so far we have n't come up with much .… | |
request book information | earlier this morning i was on the phone with a friend of mine living in south america . as we were talking in spanish , he said : " si voy a la liberi ' a , comprare ' el libro " which can be rendered into english as " if i go to the bookstore , i will purchase it " . i found this expression a bit u… | |
call for abstracts : optimality in syntactic theory | content - length : 4437 call for papers is the best good enough ? workshop on optimality in syntactic theory to be held at the massachusetts institute of technology , cambridge , ma , may 19-21 1995 . syntactic research in a variety of frameworks is assigning a growing role to the notion of comparis… | |
m . a . in scandinavian linguistics | m . a . in scandinavian linguistics at the university of tromsoe 1995-1996 ( corrected version ) the linguistics section of the institute for language and literature at the university of tromsoe , norway , offers a one year course leading up to a master of arts degree , starting the fall of 1995 . t… | |
call for papers : linguistics session of the m / mla | call for papers linguistics session - - midwest modern language association , st . louis , missouri , november 2 - 4 , 1995 topic : dialogue in fiction - - applications of theories / approaches from linguistic and cognitive sciences to dialogue in fiction . papers may explain how dialogue in fiction… | |
foreign language in commercials | content - length : 1937 greetings ! i ' m wondering if someone out there can identify the languages used in two recent ibm commercials . they have out a series of three ads with people in different countries talking about ibm equipment and services . one ad has two old gentlemen walking along what l… | |
fulbright announcement : please post / disseminate to lists | fulbright announcement : please post / disseminate to lists subject fulbright scholar program competition for 1996-97 : fulbright chairs in western europe and canada action : submissions due may 1 , 1995 info : dr . karen adams or ms . margo cunniffe council for international exchange of scholars 30… | |