In a manuscript William Labov (1987) states that although linguistics is a field with a long historical tradition and with a high degree of consensus on basic categories, it experiences a fundamental devision concerning the role that quantitative methods should play as part of the research progress. Linguists differ in the role they assign to the use of natural language examples in linguistic r...

Interlinear glossed text (IGT, the familiar three-line format of linguistic examples) can be an extremely rich source of linguistic information, when linguists follow best practices in creating it (e.g., the Leipzig glossing rules, Comrie et al. 2003). The ODIN project (http://www.csufresno.edu/odin; Lewis 2006) recognized the value of IGT data as a reusable data type and has created a searchab...

The TDT-3 Text and Speech Corpus expands on previous phases of Topic Detection and Tracking data collections, by increasing the number of news sources being sampled, by including Mandarin Chinese as well as English news data, and by introducing new forms of topic annotation. In order to satisfy the specific data and annotation requirements of the TDT-3 Evaluation Plan[1], the LDC refined and su...

helped to qualify this, because in order to win Moritz's favour it was not enough to claim special revelation; as other plausible obfuscation failed, one had to achieve some practical credibility. The quarrel between Andreas Libavius and Johannes Hartmann, the subject of a separate monograph by Moran, also assisted in the process. As Moritz's appointee to the first chair of Paracelsian chemistr...

The same dilemma remains for those in Northern Ireland today who genuinely want peace, reconciliation, and stability, but who at the same time see in what is termed the peace process, if not deceit, then much glossing over, a lot of ambiguity, and a deal of bad history. In 1921 the new institutions in Northern Ireland, the regional government and Parliament began life under the fiercest onslaug...

The Ubiquitous Lexicon concept (ULex) has two sides. In the first kind of ubiquity, ULex combines prelexical corpus based lexicon extraction and formatting techniques from speech technology and corpus linguistics for both language documentation and basic speech technology (e.g. speech synthesis), and proposes new XML models for the basic datatypes concerned, in order to enable standardisastion ...

The class of sounds classified under the umbrella term “rhotic” demonstrate considerable variability across, languages, dialects, and speech styles. This is no exception in Spanish, where rhotics have received attention. Among dialects pronunciation Costa Rican Spanish a highly salient feature this variety, standard trill /r/ tap /ɾ/ are often assibilated or realized as fricatives. A number stu...

Despite the profane wordings in title above, this paper will be a civilized and academic inquest into sacrosanct “compendium” world has come to venerate. Touted by lexicographer as panacea every linguistic worry, dictionary indeed become source of reference reverence from essentially walk life. This essay on other hand, direct contention with deeply erroneously held views laymen linguists alike...

Old Serbian bliznica is attested around 1350 in a passage dealing with iron melting. Since the mid-1600s word has been recorded by early lexicographers, glossing it as ?steel?. Today and its shorter variant blizna are used same meaning vernacular speakers of Eastern Serbia, Western Bulgaria Macedonia, but formerly word?s area extended far to west, Bosnia Dubrovnik. Although limited part South S...

The article discusses research perspectives on the Tatar language based LingvoDoc platform. Digitalization of learning in modern linguistics allows us to move a new level describing structure. Large corpora containing millions word forms have been created all European languages since 90s last century. Currently, this has done not only Russian language, but also many national Russia such as Tata...