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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 286 383 FL 016 933 AUTHOR Joseph, Brian D., Ed.; Zwicky, Arnold M., Ed. TITLE Computer Applications ins Information Systems. Proceedings of a Workshop (Cape Town, South Africa, November 26-27, 1985). University of Cape Town School of Librarianship Continuing Education Series Number 1. INSTITUTION Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Dept. of Linguistics. PUB DATE May 87 NOTE 222p. PUB TYPE Reports - Evaluative/Feasibility (142) -- Collected Works - General (020) EDRS PRICE mpo1 /pc09 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adverbs; Bulgarian; Child Language; Code Switching (Language); Contrastive Linguistics; Diachronic Linguistics; Dialects; English; *Form Classes (Languages); *Grammar; Greek; Japanese; *Linguistic Theory; Literature Appreciation; *Morphology (Languages); Phonemes; Phonology; Pronouns; Slovenian; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Suprasegmentals; *Syntax; *Uncommonly Taught Languages; Writing (Composition) IDENTIFIERS Breton; Language Contact; Markedness; War and Peace ABSTRACT A collection of essays marking the retirement of Ilse Lehiste, chair of the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University (1967-71 and 1985-87) includes the following contributions by her colleagues: "On Incomplete Mutations in Breton"; "Perceived P-Center Location in English and Japanese"; "Ordering Paradoxes and Lexical Phonology"; "The Slovenian Orphan Accusative, Component Interfaces, and Covert Grammatical Categories"; "Parameters and Markedness in the Acquisition of Syntax"; "Notes toward a Semantic Simulation of a Fragment of Child Language"; "Some Literary Manifestations of Language Contact"; "'Concessive' as a Discourse Relation in Expository Written English"; "Adverbs; Polysemy, and Compositional Semantics"; "Lake Miwok Naturalization of Borrowed Phonemes"; "What Is 'Karaka'? A Probe into Panini's Analytical Procedure"; "Codeswitching in 'War and Peace'"; "A Greek-Bulgarian Mischsprache in the Rhodope?"; "Feminism in Morphology"; "Paragraph Perception by_Seven Groups of Readers"; "Pronouns and People: Some Preliminary Evidence That the Accessibility of Antecedents in Processing Can Vary with Clause Relation and Biology"; "Some Implications of Issues in Social Dialectology for Linguistic Reconstruction"; "The Phonological Domains of Final Lengthening"; "On Situation Adverbs"; "On the Phrasing of Coordinate Compound Structures"; "Closure Duration in the Classification of Stops: A Statistical Analysis"; and "Silent Features and Syntactic Analysis." (MSE) The+ Ohio State TJrii-vetz-isity Ws=m-lciriiie Papers in Linguistics# 35 A Fetegteachrii.'t rctz- lime+ i_tethisatet Edited by Briars D. .Y.:Imet3ph. and A.rrictici M. Zwicky The Ohio State. University Department of Linguistics 204.Cuss IaU 1241 Mflflkla Vaal CM 4406 4SSI9 -II1S U. S. A. 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Since Ilse's retirement happens to coincide withthis milepost in the history of the department shedid so such to shape as the director of the Division of Linguisticsfrom 1965-1967 and chair of the Department of Linguistics from 1967-71and 196647, and as its most distinguished member--we are able to offer hera doubly appropriate token of our regard. The contributors to this volume have allbeen Ilse's colleagues during her years at Ohio State (a fulllist of those who have held faculty appointments since the Division ofLinguistics was established is provided on the next page).Our diverse contributions touch on most of the areas in which Ilse has publishedduring her career: studies in Deltic, Finno- Ugric, Demonic, and Slaviclanguages; historical and comparative linguistics; instrumental phonetics,investigating both the perception and production of language; languagecontact; phonological theory; poetics wed stylistics; and prosodyand supresegmentals. We look forward to her own contributions in theseareas during the department's third decade. ii 0S13 WPL * 35 Table of Contents A Festschrift for Ilse Lehiste Edited by Brian D. Joseph and Arnold N. Zwicky Page Gregory T. Stump, "On imeamplete mutations in Breton". 1-10 Robert A. Fox, "Perceived P- center location in English and Japanese" 11-20 David Odden, "Ordering paradoxes and lexical phonology" 21-28 Arnold N. Zwicky, "The Slovenian orphan accusative,
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    Modern Language Range Mapping for the Study of Language Diversity Hannah J. Haynie1,2 Michael C. Gavin2 1University of Colorado 2Colorado State University Corresponding Author: Hannah J. Haynie email: [email protected] tel: +1-303-735-8219 August 29, 2019 Abstract Research regarding the ecology and evolution of languages has advanced rapidly in recent years, increasing demand for digital spatial location data for individual languages. However, language mapping and geographic information system (GIS) data creation has not kept pace with this demand. To date, language range information is typically contained in small, private regional datasets, paper maps and published illustrations, or in a very small number of global digital datasets. Each of these sources has advantages and disadvantages, and though these considerations may not be apparent to all data users, they can have significant impacts on research results. Mapping of language ranges is a particularly complex problem in regions where colonial histories have had dramatic effects on language diversity, language locations, and the relative representation of colonial and indigenous perspectives. Here we consider how the creation of digital language range data can better meet the needs of researchers interested in language diversity, discuss how better standards for data quality and transparency can be implemented for digital language range maps, and present a map of North American language ranges that has resulted from the use of these procedures and standards. Introduction Language maps have been published for centuries in paper books and atlases (e.g. Franquelin 1684; Wenker et al. 1926; Goddard 1996; Asher & Moseley 2007). Recently, demand has grown for digital map products representing the locations and ranges of languages.