LINGUIST List 6.1051

Sat Aug 5 1995

Qs: Synthesizer, Discourse/Agreement, Numerals

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>


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  • Alejandro Renato, Articulatory Sinthesizer
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  • Picus Sizhi Ding, Q: Numerals

    Message 1: Articulatory Sinthesizer

    Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 19:49:26 Articulatory Sinthesizer
    From: Alejandro Renato <arenatodc.uba.ar>
    Subject: Articulatory Sinthesizer


    I'm posting this message to ask if anyone knows of available articulatory synthesizer, commercial or public. I'm working in a project about phonetic development from an articulatory approach. Please respond to my personal address. Thank in advance.

    Alejandro C. Renato Dept. of Computation Fac. Cs. Exactas y Nat. Universidad de Buenos Aires arenatozorzal.dc.uba.ar

    Message 2: discourse / agreement

    Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 01:36:00 discourse / agreement
    From: <andrericarda.fas.ag-berlin.mpg.de>
    Subject: discourse / agreement


    I need a proverb, a citation or some arbitrary sentence said by a famous person, or taken from a report / article about some interesting event... which contains the two words

    discourse and agreement.

    Does anyone know of something like that? or - and I think that is more probable - can anyone give me instructions how I can get in touch with a database, a library, a corpus or something that could help me?

    Thanks for your help

    Andre (Meinunger)

    Message 3: Q: Numerals

    Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 00:03:45 Q: Numerals
    From: Picus Sizhi Ding <Picus.Dinganu.edu.au>
    Subject: Q: Numerals


    It seems to me that 'eleven' and 'twelve' in English are not related to 'one' and 'two' respectively as 'three' to 'thirteen', 'four' to 'fourteen'. Is this the real case?

    If my impression of this two numerals in English is right, are there any other languages like this? That is, there is a basic expression for the numerals from 13 to 19, except 11 and 12? Here I'll exclude the case for French and Portuguese, which have a pattern of _x + ze_ for numerals from 11 to 15 (0<x<6), and a pattern of _dix/dez + x_ for numerals from 16 to 19 (5<x<=9). However, if you know of a language in which the 'teen' numerals go on their own ways without any patterns, I'd like to hear about it, too.

    In case you wonder why I pose such a question: in Pumi (Prinmi), a language spoken in Yunnan-Sichuan border, 11 and 12 are slightly different with the other 'teens'. The others have the prefix _ga_, but they _go_: _go-di_ 'ten-one', _go-ni_ 'ten-two', _ga-sonk_ 'ten-three', etc. This may not be simply a slight phonological change of the vowal. I'll tell you why in the summary if I receive sufficient replies for doing so.