Questions tagged [resource-request]
For requests of linguistic resources (like corpora, training data, wordnets, ontologies). When looking for published references, use the [reference-request] tag instead.
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List of initial consonant clusters in English
At a certain point in a macro I have to determine whether shifting the final consonant(s) of one syllable to the next syllable results in a valid onset. Can anyone point me to a complete list of ...
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Corpus of Taboo card game?
Has anyone constructed a corpus of people playing the card game Taboo, in a purely text-based setting, like a computer chat, rather than face-to-face with audio or video? The closest I've found are ...
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Introduction to compositional semantics with types
I'm looking for an introduction (book or lecture notes) to compositional semantics based on e-t type theory that would be suitable for first-year level linguistics presupposing knowledge of elementary ...
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Source to look up pronunciation of phonetic script
Can anyone recommend a book that a non-linguist can use to look up and pronounce words written in phonetic script?
For example, Wikipedia has this written down: "[ɛks’pɑzətɔri]". I want to ...
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Where online can I find a list of all the Hapax Legomena in the Hebrew Bible?
I am looking for a list online of all Hapax Legomena in the Hebrew Bible in text format that I can copy and paste into MS Word for further studies.
I need something that's free and is not in a picture ...
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Finding articulatory profiles
I have two questions. The first is how is it better to call such pictures? Is the term 'articulatory profile' alright? The second: is there a place on the internet or elsewhere which contains many ...
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Can the conceptual metaphor be approached syntactically?
I am really interested in studying how syntax is connected to cognition. I would like to see if the conceptual nature of metaphor can also be approached syntactically. But I don't know where to start. ...
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Resource for finding languages that contain certain phonemes [duplicate]
In particular /w~b/ or other sounds that could be transcribed as <w> or <b>.
Background: A person gave his name variously as 'John Barosa' or 'John Warosa' in writing from which I figured ...
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Population models in language formation
In the same way that there are population models in epidemiology, for example the spread of diseases, is there anything equivalent in linguistics to model the dynamics of language formation? These ...
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Resources for Indonesian/Austronesian etymology
I'm looking for online resources for Austronesian languages etymology.
KBBI doesn't provide any etymology, which is astonishing for such a notable and official dictionary.
The only source I've found ...
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What etext sources do we have for the Gothic Language?
It is very hard to search for "Gothic" in Google, because it finds modern gothic stuff which is not what I'm looking for. I found the word "𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃" (but I can't find a definition haha), and ...
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Appropriate language models to use on dialogue/conversational language
I have used the Google LM 1B corpus in the past for testing written language, e.g. other periodicals.
However, I'm now using text from an IM chat, which is conversational. I would like to measure ...
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Is the source list of “Oxford English Corpus” public available?
The Oxford English Corpus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Corpus) is a text corpus of 21st century English, used by the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary and by Oxford University ...
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What is the standard dictionary for linguistic teminology (English)?
I know the linguistic dictionaries that are used in my language, but I'm looking for a specific term and I need an English one. Any tips?
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Is there an appendix of documented sound changes?
I believe at one point I've seen online some sort of appendix where you can look up a particular phoneme, for example, and see how it either develops in certain languages, triggers some form of sound ...
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Cumbrian sources
I'm interested in the cumbrian dialect, but I couldn't find good sources of vocabulary and pontual aspects of its grammar. Also, I was trying to understand the following poem:
I'll tell the'
We're ...
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart handbook
As a gift for a friend who is finishing a translatio degree I wanted to get a large IPA chart poster and would like to accompany it with a guide for it.
I have seen there is an official handbook but I ...
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Need online resources to compare the pronunciation in Latin, Old French and Old English
I'm looking for resources giving old French pronunciation, for instance as IPA.
I know that the pronunciation of old French is quite regular, but I cannot find a dictionary with pronunciations.
I ...
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Is there an API that converts a word into an IPA Transcriptions?
We want to automatically generate the IPA Transcription for a person's name when we create a record for them in our application. Does anyone know of an API service that can do this?
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Nouns used as verbs.What is this process called?
I am milking the cow
He is watering the garden
In English many nouns can be used as verbs.some languages I know , for example, Hindi, does not have this facility.
What is the process of nouns ...
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Which option should I use if I want to learn theories that will account for as much English sentence's structure as possible
Option 1: "Cambridge English Grammar Language" by Geoffrey Pullum
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Option 2: a site which, i think, is based on government and binding theory: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/syntax-textbook/
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Do there exist any Phoenician or Etruscan dictionaries online?
I am trying to find a word list for Phoenician but this is all I've found online (a short list, who knows how accurate it is). The only books (without previews unfortunately) I could find were these:
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big english word frequency list [duplicate]
I'm in need of English 100,000 frequency word list.
I hope you tell me about a free option (if available) or an inexpensive one.
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What are the recommended sources for research about conceptual metaphor?
I would like to find what have been done in research about conceptual metaphor. I've looked into some database, e.g. ERIC, Sciencedirect, WileyOnlineLibrary, JSTOR, Cambridgecore, Taylor&Francis, ...
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What is a good etymological dictionary for the Persian language?
There are dozens of etymological dictionaries for Persian, has somebody compared them, and if yes could you recommend me a good one?
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Data set for reasoning?
I am looking data set for reasoning. Basically, more examples like this one:
1. I like food.
2. Cake is food.
Conclusion: I like cake.
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English phonemes audio database
I need an audio file database with any audio format which will contain the 44 English phonemes spoken by different speakers.
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minimal pairs for Portuguese
Does anyone know of a list of minimal pairs for pronunciation, preferably with audio files?
So far the best I have found https://european-portuguese.info/minimalpairs but this is specific to European. ...
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good references for old indo-European languages
what enjoy the most is to trace back the words right to their origin.
i had little study on Mazandarani(tabari\tapuri) dialect spoken is Mazandaran province of Iran. traced back some words to their ...
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Proto-Indo-European (PIE) words with IPA
Are there any resources that can show IPA pronounciation for each PIE word? Either with laryngeals or without laryngeals?
Wikitionary gives me only small list Category:Proto-Indo-European terms with ...
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Is there an english news corpus available to download for between 1900 and 201X (free or low cost)
I'm attempting a word embedding analysis (think underlying meaning and implications, but computational) of certain keywords through time in the English language, but I am having some difficulty ...
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Chinese linguistics: Could anyone give me pointers to the Traditional-Simplified Chinese translated corpora?
I am a computational linguist and I need some datasets to evaluate my Simplified to Traditional Chinese converter.
Could anyone point to datasets which have pairs of Simplified-Traditional Chinese ...
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Extensive English word corpora
I am looking for an extensive list of english words[including American and British... just an exhaustive list]. This list of english words should contain an exhaustive collection of all forms of all ...
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Is there any language where stress can be comprised of diminished expiratory force?
I can swear I read an online article that gave a resouding yes to that question but I've lost it and my memory is uhm, not the best so I'd like a confirmation.
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PoS tagger - technical corpus
I try to find corpus with technical language to train my model, but I cannot find it.
Do you know if there are any tagged PoS corpus in English related with technical language?
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Get Prolog (other functional programming language) rules/facts from LKB or similar system
My goal is to take simple sentence such as Grass is green and convert it to Prolog rule/fact. It does not have to be Prolog, but any other functional programming language with which I can perform ...
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Maltese Swadesh list with IPA
Do anyone know where to find the full Maltese Swadesh list with the phonetic transcription (IPA) ?. I found such list in Wikipedia but without IPA transcription
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One-to-one speech conversation dataset (Recorded over microphone)
I need a publically available one-to-one speech conversation dataset recorded over the microphone, e.g., interview scenario or enquiry or call centre call answering.
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I need a list of common minimal pairs in Thai
I'm looking for a list of minimal pairs in Thai where the only difference is an accent mark/diacritic. One example would be
ห่าง (far) =/= ห้าง (store)
Is there someplace to find this? My Thai ...
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Textbook suggestions for French phonology
I need to write a paper on French phonology for my Phonology class so I was wondering if you could give me some advice on where to start? I'm mainly looking for textbooks either in English or in ...
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Online collection of the world languages' melodic patterns?
Every language has some very typical melodic patterns and I've been wondering is there some sort of a global repository collecting and comparing such patterns?
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Where can I find an analysis of the semantic overlap of English “to have” and “with”?
For years I've understood via my native speaker intuition and my interest in languages and linguistics that the preposition "with" can carry the semantic meaning of the verb "to have".
The man who ...
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Good audio resources for the ejective consonants
I think I understand the ejective consonants, but even after listening to the Wikipedia audio clips, I am not sure I would be able to distinguish them from the corresponding "regular" consonant, like ...
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Software for finding syllogisms in treebank data?
Is there treebank search software that can locate a syllogism, identifying its major and minor premises and terms?
cf. Eyal Mozes, “A Deductive Database Based on Aristotelian Logic,” Journal of ...
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Accurately representing stress
Wondering how to accurately represent stress. In IPA, stress, is marked with ˈ◌. But in languages like Spanish (don't know of other languages that use acute accent, other than Ancient Greek), you have ...
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Techniques for translating a text [closed]
After looking through a few translations of texts, I started wondering how people go about actually doing the translation. For example, translating between Chinese and English. They have very ...
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Looking for Spanish email or chat corpora
I am looking for some corpora containing emails or chats in Spanish.
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Transcripts for Languages with Few Resources (Such as Native American Languages)
Wondering if there exist any direct Native American or other Indigenous people's transcript of a story or a complete something in their language. By indigenous I mean those living in the Amazon, New ...
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Audio library for all IPA vowels and consonants
Wikipedia has a pretty good intro to the IPA sounds, even some of the "click" sounds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio
https://en....
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Diagram of all IPA sound places
Wondering if there is a diagram similar to the following one, but that lists all of the mouth configurations such as for ʃ and everything else.
