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Reference for help in identifying the abnormal syntax or use of language in psychotic individuals
I have a job in which I must try to differentiate between persons who are actually psychotic and those who are faking psychosis, and it is often quite difficult. I would like to identify ...
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Where do I get all the phonemes of RP English in audio?
I need an authoritative link or a standard which linguists use as a reference point (to compare). It would be not bad if someone knows more or less right phonemes (wav) links (with correct formants .....
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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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Resources on 'Siberian language'
Siberian language (Ru) is an artificial language project which used to have its wiki pages. Unfortunately, due to the bizzare political processes in modern Russia, the pages were deleted and the ...
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Glossed narratives in languages with proximate/obviative and/or direct/inverse marking?
This is something of a long shot, but I am looking for narratives with English word-by-word glosses in languages that have proximate/obviative marking, direct/inverse marking (aka hierarchical ...
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Linguistics resources for beginners [closed]
I'm currently reading Jackendoff's Foundations of language and I've realised that my knowledge of syntax, morphology and phonology isn't as strong as I'd like it to be. I'm coming from a psych ...
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Where can I find Japanese-English (manually) word-aligned corpora?
I'm looking for as many very reliable Japanese-English corpora as possible so I'd like to ask:
Are there any other manually aligned corpora besides KFFT's and
Utiyama's?
What are the most accurate ...
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List of words in Hebrew
Where can I found a list of all the words in Hebrew including plurals, inflections, etc.?
I have only found some lists that are based on wikipedia corpus or subtitles curpus, which include many errors ...
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Where can I get data set for metaphony in Italian dialects?
The problem is that most sources refer to phonological data collected a long time ago. Where can I get some fresh stuff to analyze?
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Accents resources?
What are some good beginner's introductions to accents? In English (accents, I mean, generally; but English sites or books)?
At this moment I'm primarily interested in accents on the level of the ...
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Searching for the rules of tone sandhi in Lao
Most tonal languages have tone sandhi, which consists of rules whereby the standard/default/dictionary tones of words/syllables change due to which tones occur in adjacent words/syllables.
But I am ...
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List of collocations in English
Does anybody know of source (probably NLP study) of comprehensive list of collocations in English (not only the frequent one). Additionally, does anybody know the approximate estimate of the total ...
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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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Basic resource on Japanese phonetics
Could you recommend a good reference for studying Japanese phonetics?
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Is there a catalog of phonological and morphological information about languages?
Let's say that I want to invent a sound which, if it already isn't a Dutch word, could potentially be one, because it exhibits the right morphology.
Is there some document where I could find "Dutch" ...
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What are the go-to resources on historical linguistics?
I'm pretty interested in historical linguistics, but unfortunately, my school rarely offers the historical linguistics class. What are some go-to resources on historical linguistics, be it books, ...
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Looking for resources/papers listing language-specific phonotactic constraints
I am looking for comprehensive lists or research papers covering language-specific phonotactic constraints.
It would be great to start with English, but any language will do.
Specifically I'm ...
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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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Searching for a Spanish word list for statistical analysis [closed]
I need a Spanish word list, as simple as that.
The more complete it is, the better, it should contain as many words as to be a statistically relevant sample.
It can be in any format: XML, MS Excel, ....
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1TB word (1-gram) corpus
Where can I find a 1TB or larger 1-gram corpus?
I am comparing certain structures for term-frequency calculation, but without a significantly large dataset I won't be able to show the non-theoretical ...
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Looking for XML for English language grammar instruction
Some colleagues and I would like to put together a grammar compendium to teach English grammar and would like to record the rules and examples in XML so as to increase the kinds of ways it can be ...
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Machine-readable list of abbreviations
Is there a list of standard abbreviations/acronyms available for computational linguistics tasks? I understand 'standard' is a subjective term here but anything that is not too domain specific(not a ...
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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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Finding a classroom transcript (for discourse analysis)
I am writing an R package and am in need of a discourse data set (a classroom transcript) that I can publicly include. Quantitative data sets are a dime a dozen but getting a hold of a classroom (...
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Are there any databases of geographical language distribution?
I'm wondering whether anyone knows of any machine parsable database of the geographical distribution of natural languages (for example the geographical distribution of (native) speakers)?
I know WALS ...
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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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Are there guides to analysing phonetic data in R?
I need references like papers/articles/books by and for people who use R for analysing phonetic data. I have Harrington's (2008) Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora, and it's great, but a lot of other ...
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Corpus of baby-talk or motherese
Baby-talk or motherese is the language that parents tend to use when addressing preverbal or just-starting-to-speak children. What are the fundamental features or rules that define this subset of a ...
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How to prepare for the International Linguistics Olympiad
What are the best resources (online or books) to prepare for the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL)?
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