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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Mandarin Chinese syllable and tone frequency (not character frequency)
There's plenty of good resources on Chinese character frequency available.
But I'm wondering about syllable frequency independent of characters, and also tone frequency both separate and in ...
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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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C++ library for part-of-speech tagging in English
I am looking for a C++ library that:
does part-of-speech tagging in English.
has a license allowing commercial use and doesn't force the program to be open source.
is still maintained or has been ...
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Where can you download the IPA chart with audio?
Where can you download or obtain (preferably freely) such a chart like http://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/ipa-sounds/ipa-chart-with-sounds/ with each phone pronounced, for offline use?
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How to find info on rare languages?
I keep trying to find languages that match the features of my conlangs for help figuring out how to use features I'm not used to. However, its rare that WALS to tell me about any language you can find ...
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List of French minimal pairs
I recently asked a general question about minimal pairs (i.e. words that differ by one phoneme) and got a link to a website that provides a comprehensive list of English minimal pairs.
Is there a ...
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What are some good sources for Old Marathi and Old Konkani as would have been spoken around 1100-1600?
I get that this will be a very difficult question, perhaps one with no easily accessible answer as vernacular MIA/NIA speech was not often written down and even if so, it was meant to resemble OIA in ...
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context free grammar ressource
I am looking for a large...ish context free grammar, preferably in flat format (so no XML for example). The language does not matter. Whether it has features or not doesn't matter either. Can you ...
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How common is Teke as a written language in Gabon and what variety is usually the basis of the written language?
In many instances of Gabonese media, "Teke" seems to be regarded as a single language, however there are several varieties that are distinct enough to be considered as separate languages. ...
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Rule Interaction and the Organization of a Grammar
Apologies for not posing a proper question, but I'd like to find a copy of Rule Interaction and the Organization of a Grammar, by Geoffrey K. Pullum (1979), which I believe to be his doctoral thesis. ...
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Is there a Mid-Atlantic pronouncing dictionary?
I’m someone who speaks what I would describe as “a conservative American accent”. I sound like General American from a couple decades ago. I distinguish between the vowels in Mary, marry, and merry, ...
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Parallel English-Spanish corpora?
I would like to know of parallel corpora for English-Spanish (that is, texts or language originally in English translated into Spanish and aligned by excerpts of texts) other than those on the Opus ...
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Where can I find a set of Spanish-English comparable texts? ***(Not translations)***
This is my very first post, I hope I'm making myself clear.
What I'm asking for is a set of texts that are equivalent in both languages in terms of difficulty, word frequency and register (i.e. two ...
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Are there some studies or resources comparing the two living creole languages in Australia?
In Australia there are two creoles in daily use, Kriol (rop, also known as Roper River Creole etc) in the Northern Territory with about 30,000 speakers and Torres Strait Creole (tcs, also known as ...
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Parsers and syntax trees for natural languages
Say I have a string representing text in a natural language, for example:
She is an effective teacher. Most students have found her reasonably helpful.
Is there a programming library or command line ...
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Need a tool for searching POS tags AND strings
Is there such a thing as a dataset that can be easily queried for combinations of POS tags and strings? As an example, I may want to search for:
JJ "winter nights"
and have returned a ...
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Oxford/Cambridge Sanskrit Book
A few years ago I came across a book on Sanskrit (not a dictionary, not a grammar book, not a book on Sanskrit literature( that belonged to the "Classical Language Series" from either Oxford ...
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How good ChatGPT is at answering questions?
I am looking for evaluations of ChatGPT on some question-answering dataset.
I'm especially interested in how good (or bad) ChatGPT is at answering questions posted on Stack Exchange, specifically in ...
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Freely available Penn-Treebank-like Rewriting Rules corpus?
Hey I'm currently working on my thesis in computer science. For one of my experiments I need a large context-free grammar (set of rewriting rules) that vastly approximates English syntax for some ...
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Seeking free grammar or detailed description of Avar
The more I learn about the Georgian language the more eager I am to compare it with nearby Caucasian languages, to which it is not related but shares a common Sprachbund with.
Although I'm also ...
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Syntax tree software
Does anybody know a good software for creating syntax tree diagrams like this ?
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Is there any free API that can translate from French to IPA? [duplicate]
I have invented a language that actually is just French but each phoneme is replaced by another one. So to build an application that can translate from French to that language, I need the phonetics of ...
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What are the stress-distinguished minimal pairs in English?
I already know of two non-homograph ones: insight and billow.
Insight /ˈɪnsʌɪt/ is phonemically identical to incite /ɪn'sʌɪt/ except for where the stress falls (first syllable in insight, second ...
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Are there online resources from which I can study ancient Umbrian?
Unfortunately I can not find a substantial resource that can help me in the study of ancient Umbrian. I have tried to search up on the Web, however the only resources I had found were about lexicon.
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Are there any free tools to integrate in apps for evaluating speech on a word level?
I want to give the sound of a word and ask the user to repeat it.
In the app, I want to be able to check the accuracy of the user's speech and give him feedback on whether he said it correctly or not.
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Ways of categorizing words beyond basic grammar, prefixes and etymology
I'm training a specific category of memory competition that consists of memorizing a random sequence of words in a specific order under one minute. The general method consists of finding images ...
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Classification of kinship system by languages
I'm looking for a way to compare "closeness" of languages based on their kinship systems.
The only thing I found is this classification, which classifies kin systems to: Eskimo, Hawaiian, ...
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High School Textbook Recommendation [closed]
Please recommend an introductory linguistics textbook for motivated high school students.
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Where to find frequency list of English words from newspapers, books and magazines?
I'd like to download a frequency list of English words that are most common in newspapers, books and magazines. It should contain at least 50.000 words.
Is it possible to download such a list from ...
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Concise IPA dictionary
For decades I have used "A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English" by Kenyon and Knott as a concise and accessible tool in learning the IPA. The fact that it's still in print must mean ...
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Looking for linguistics book my dad had when i was young
Hello linguistics people...
When I was young, one of the books in my father's library had a unique conceit: it aimed to improve the English language. So it proposed changes, and from then on the ...
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How can I find the frequency for the Russian word "чем-нибудь"?
I've tried searching for the word "чем-нибудь"on the 20,000 word list I found on Wikipedia. You can link directly to it here. For the sake of thoroughness, I even searched the larger 50,...
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What has happened to the World Phonotactics Database?
There was a resource named "World Phonotactics Database" once located at http://phonotactics.anu.edu.au/, but this location has gone. Searching for World Phonotactics Database on the web ...
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Who says that words historically evolve from concrete meanings to more abstract meanings?
Conventional wisdom says that when a word has two meanings -- one concrete/tangible and one abstract -- the concrete meanings is the older one, and the more abstract one is the newer meaning that ...
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Need help with sources in the field of language identity
I am about to write a term paper for a German "TESOL" certificate in Germany.
The term paper is about whether "there is a connection between the point in time at which the national ...
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Are there any equivalent of oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ in Arabic?
I am looking for a website that is equivalent of https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/go
In oxforddictionaries, you see it gives all of the meanings of a word with example sentences
Are ...
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How to count the number of unique words (lemmas) in a Russian text?
Here's the problem: I have a large deck of Anki flashcards which I memorize. I would like to know how many unique Russian words (lemmas) I have in my entire collection.
What I need is some kind of ...
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Full list of ISO-639-6
Is there a full list of codes in ISO-639-6:2009 (Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 6: Alpha-4 code for comprehensive coverage of language variants) such as a cached mirror or ...
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Where to find native speakers for acceptability tests
I just wondered if any of y'all know if there's a website which can find you native speakers in various languages to get judgments on the acceptability of sentences.
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Sites for collecting and mapping vocab differences within languages
What are the publicly available websites for mapping (and collecting data) on vocabulary differences within a language?
For French there is
Français de nos régions.
For English there is
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Scientific sources/ literature regarding (spanish) speech rate
I'm interested in scientific sources or literature regarding speech rate/ tempo of speech of the Spanish language. Do you know any?
Specifically, I'm looking for sources that compare the speech rate ...
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Is there a Chinese translation of Tesniere's Elements of Syntactic Structure?
Is there a Chinese version of Elements of Syntactic Structure written by Tesniere? Has anyone ever translated it into Chinese?
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Language acquisition by 100% immersion -- any cases you know of?
I am looking for documented cases where some person or group of people learned a language (= gained ability to communicate) with no prior knowledge of the target language through being immersed in ~...
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Does anyone know of text message corpora?
I am looking for a large corpus of text messages. By large, I am hoping to have at least 15,000 text messages in my sample. I am fine with combining several smaller corpora into a larger corpus as I ...
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What is the frequency of color words in English compared to German?
I am writing a term paper about the role of adjectives and gender marking in efficient communication about English and German respectively.
And I was wondering if there is any way/website/tool to ...
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Is there an English to Coptic translator online?
I've found two sites that claim to do this, neither of them work. I need a translator, not a dictionary.
Non-workers:
Bablefish Online Translator
and a lot of spam...
I wasn't sure whether this ...
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What program can I use to make a tree of a language family?
I'm not looking to make anything really special looking, I'd just like to make basic branches going down to draw a family tree. I tried Paint but that's difficult to edit, and Word wouldn't be easy to ...
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For each IPA phone, are there animations or videos that depict the vocal tract during articulation?
(TL;DR) For each IPA phone, are there animations, ams, pictures or videos that depict exactly and precisely the location of your articulators (eg: your tongue), needed to articulate that letter?
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In Search of an Etymological Name Database
Do such things even exist? Attempts at searches turn up rather limited and uninformative sites dedicated to parental demographics, and that's not what I'm looking for.
Specifically, I'm looking for a ...
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What is the best book to learn about the linguistics features of American English (particularly phonology and phonetics) in detail?
I have a fairly good understanding of the IPA, Chain Shifts, variations within dialects but I still have troubles with lots of phonological ideas like devoicing, weird consonantal clusters tongue ...
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