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Notes on Linguistics, 1993. INSTITUTION Summer Inst DOCUMENT RESUME ED 369 295 FL 022 083 AUTHOR Loos, Eugene, Ed. TITLE Notes on Linguistics, 1993. INSTITUTION Summer Inst. of Linguistics, Dallas, Tex. PUB DATE 93 NOTE 267p. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Notes on Linguistics; n60-63 1993 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC11 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Applied Linguistics; Book Reviews; Educational Attitudes; *Language Research; *Linguistics; Linguistic Theory; *Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Theory Practice Relationship; Uncommonly Taught Languages IDENTIFIERS Wh Questions ABSTRACT This journal is Intended to provide linguistics field workers with news, reviews, announcements, and articles that will stimulate interest in the field of linguistics. Each issue contains three to seven articles and reports, three to five book reviews, announcements relative to the field, and a list of books available for review. Feature articles in these issues include: (1) "And Where Now, Cecil?" (Geoffrey Hunt) ;(2) "The Role of Contextual Assumptions in Wh-Questions Containing the Particle /mc/ in Wee (Kru)" (Inge Egner);(3) "Speech-Led Versus Comprehension-Led Language Learning" (Eddie Arthur);(4) "The Role of Tone Sandhi in Tone Analysis" (John Daly); J5) "Linguistics as a Stepchild: A Diary Entry" (John Verhaar);(6) "What Can You Do With Findphone?" (David Bevan); (7) "Head Shift: A Diary Entry" (John Verhaar);(8) "Intra-Causal Movement as a Response to Case Summon" (Oza-mekuri Ndimele);(9) "Adverbial Clauses and Topicalization in Me'en" (Hans-George Will); (10) "Some Reflections on Formal Syntax" (David Weber); (11) "Implicatures" (Ernest W. Lee);(12) "Mirror-Image Reduplication in Amele" (John R. Roberts) ;and (13) "Response to Hohulin Review" (Regina Blass). (MDM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. * *********************************************************************** Notes on Linguistics Number 60 February 1993 Number 61 May 1993 Number 62 August 1993 Number 63 November 1993 U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION "PERMISSION TO REPHODUCE THIS e of Educatonat Research and Improvement MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) h.s document has been reproduced as ere.ved horn tne person or organaation anymafing SA.ncor changes have been made to rroprOve reproduction duality Po,nts of vew or optrtions stated m INS dOCu. 'Tient do not necessarily represent ottmcmat TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ()PRI posihon or pOl.cy INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC).- Liktr ie i JaiirmPft,Trftlr 2 NOTES ON LINGUISTICS NUMBER 60 FEBRUARY 1993 CONTENTS COORDINATOR'S CORNER Eugene Loos 3 ARTICLES AND WilERE NOW, CECIL? Geoffrey Hunt 4 THE ROLE OF CONTEXTUAL ASSUMPTIONS IN WITQUESTIONS CONTAINING THE PARTICLE M3 IN WEE (KRU) Inge Egner 9 SPEECH-LED VERSUS COMPREHENSION-LED LANGUAGE LEARNING Eddie Arthur 22 REPORTS AUSTRALIAN LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE Robert Early 39 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAINTENANCE AND LOSS OF MINORITY LANGUAGES Ken Decker 41 SECOND ENCOUNTER FOR LINGUISTICS IN NORTHWESTERN MEXICO Thomas Willett 43 CONF. ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LINGUISTIC AND CONCEPTUAL REPRESENTATION David Tuggy 45 REVIEWS STUDIES IN THE LINGUISTIC SCIENCES 18:1 Edited by Michael J. Kenswwicz John M. Clifton 48 CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS NO. 61 by Anjurn P. Sakerni David J. Holbrook 52 LANGUAGE CHANGE: PROGRESS OR DECAY? by Jean Aitchison Michelle M. Olson 53 INFINITIVAL COMPLEMENT CLAUSES IN ENGLISH: A STUDY OF SYNTAX IN DISCOURSE by Christian Mair Richard L. Watson 56 (Continued on back cover) NOTES ON LINGUISTICS EDITOR Eugene Loos ASSOCIATE EDITOR HowardW. Law CONSULTING EDITORNI Alan S. Kaye FORMAT EDITOR Betty Philpott INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTICS ADVISORS Ruth Brend. kfichiganState. U. Howard P. Mc Roughen_ U. of Hawaii. r. John Crawford.. -U. of North Dakota Dinh Hoa Nguyen SanlOse State U. Charlea A. Ferguson _Sin ord U., r. John 011er U. of New Mak* Derek Fives U. A. K. Privley ANU Peter Fries.-- Central Midugin U. Richard Rhodes U. C.. Berkeley Shirley Brice Heath .................StanJonl U. William J. Samann..-........-.............-......U. of Toronto Yoshi iko !kepis,' Hu Tan ..N. R. C. on libetc.ingy. Betiing Frances Ingemann ...U. Karon, Rudolph Troike. U. of Arizona Peter Ladefoged C.LA Sydney Lamb.-- Rice University John Verhaar.... .. The Netherlands W. P. Lehmann U. T.. Aumn Ekkeharcl Wolff. U. of Hamburg INTERNATIONAL LINGUISTICS CONSULTANTS John Bendor-Samuel....__ G. Britain Joseph E. Grimes.- ConwB U. David Payne -Peru Regina Blass- .Burkina Pato Austin Hale . Pfulippnes Velma Pickett Mexieo Leslie Dallas Alan Healey -SPSIL Eunice Pike &altar Eunice Burgess.---......Grear Britain Lou Hohulin._ l'.n.m" Evelyn 0. Pike Dallas Donald A. Burquest....U. T. Arlington Stephen H. Levinsohn.....-.Crifombia Richard S. Pittman.. ....... _._ Warhaw Ross CauOley -Asia Robert Literal_ Papua New Guinea Gary Simons. _Dallas Desmond Derbyshire.....Dafliu Robert Longacre U.T. Adingron David Thomas __ ..... ....Aria Daniel Everett...- ..... U. of Pittsbumh Nan Lowe-_-.............. Gnat Amain David Weber --...- ----Peru Karl Franklin- - Pacific Kenneth McElhanon .Dallas Klein Wedekind East Attica Donald Frantz._ ....... North dnumea Tony Naden. Ghann Ursula Wiesemann 1080 Warren Gkwer 4na Kemp Palksen New Zealand Mary Ruth Wise Petu Kenneth J. Gregerson. 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ISSN 117764473 Coordinator's Corner In developing the Glossary of Linguistics Terms for use in tagging analyzed texts, we encountered what others have found namely that a clear distinction between pragmatic concepts and syntactic concepts was not possible to establish.There are issues that clearly seem to belong inthe pragmatics, butthe rangeof concepts between pragmatics and syntax blends so that no discreet dividing line is available. Itisnot surprising, then, that argumentation processes used in linguistic analysis of syntactic structures will be tested on issues that seem to be inthe pragmaticsfield, and thatthe solutions of pragmatics questions will affect those drawn in syntax.Is thcre enough common ground between pragmatics and syntax so that a single set of hypotheses and argumentation steps will suffice for both fields? We are glad to offer an interesting article dealing with such argumentation in this issue:Inge Egner's The Role of Contextual Assumptions in WH-Questions Containing the Particle m.1 in Wee (Km). Concepts like warrant that Egner uses come from jurisprudence rather than from conventional linguistics.Would you say that we already have adequate terminology without importing from fields akin to linguistics, such as Egncr uses?(I'm not saying that she was the one who went to jurisprudence to find the term: others have done that.) We invite your impressions of the linguistic argumentation used, as well as regarding the substantive content of the articles. Eugene Loos -3- And Where Now, CECIL? Geoffrey Hunt Eurasia Area Academic Computing Consultant Many of the readers will be familiar with the SIL computer programs, CECIL and Spectrum.Together with an IBM-compatible computer and a CECIL box (which plugs intotheparallelportof the computer), they can provide a cheap, portable, battery-operated phonetics laboratory.They are used worldwide by many linguists, both SIL members and others, and the pitch-extraction algorithm has received particular praise.They have been used to a much more limited extent by ethnomusicologists, and have even been used to identify two new species of Papuan frogs. But where now? The two programs are essentially the same as those released with the first production CECIL boxes, which was during the first half of 1990. The vision of what CECIL might eventually do has not diedrather it has grown.In fact, development is continuing in both Britain and America.The purpose of this articleis to let readers know what the present situation is, where wc are going, and where we might be going. But it must be remembered that the whole thing is a research project, so please don't hold me to account if it does not go the way I say or predict. The Way Ahead All versions of CECIL up to the present version (1.2a) have been written by Philip Brassett, andI have recently received a new version from him.Itis called VGACECIL; itis a beta test version, makes provision for VGA screens, has one known hug, and will probably not be distributed.
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