Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca> (01/19/90)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 945. Thursday, 18 Jan 1990. (1) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 15:50:05 GMT (45 lines) From: J.C.Smith@GDR.BATH.AC.UK Subject: conference on teaching of French (2) Date: Thursday, 18 January 1990 1451-EST (37 lines) From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: KDEM III parts (3) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 90 12:21:16 EST (41 lines) From: STAIRS@vm.epas.utoronto.ca Subject: IPA Stack (1) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 15:50:05 GMT From: J.C.Smith@GDR.BATH.AC.UK CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS HOW TO DO THINGS WITH PRAGMATICS: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS TO THE TEACHING OF FRENCH The 1990 conference of the British Association for French Language Studies will be held at the University of Liverpool, U.K., from lunchtime on Monday 10 September to lunchtime on Wednesday 12 September. The theme will be `How to do things with pragmatics: principles and applications to the teaching of French'. Papers (in English or in French) are invited on any aspect of the analysis of French above the level of the sentence (including pragmatics, text grammar, and discourse analysis) and on the pedagogical applications of such research in the areas of syllabus design and teaching methodology. SIX copies of an abstract of not more than half a page of A4- size paper should be submitted by 1 MARCH 1990 to the programme committee, care of: John Charles Smith School of Modern Languages and International Studies University of Bath Claverton Down BATH BA2 7AY ENGLAND telephone: (+44) 225-826171 fax: (+44) 225-826099 email: mlsjcs@uk.ac.bath.gdr (BITNET, EARN, JANET) from whom further details of the conference are available. Note that this conference will immediately precede the Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain at the University of Leeds. (2) --------------------------------------------------------------40---- Date: Thursday, 18 January 1990 1451-EST From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Subject: KDEM III parts We are pleased to report that we now have in place a Kurzweil 4000 scanner, replacing two old model III scanners that had outworn their usefulness. The Kurzweil company graciously provided the model 4000 in exchange for the functional boards, scanning units, and some other parts of the model IIIs. Thus we are left with the following items that must be discarded if noone wants them. If you have any interest in any of these, please speak up immediately. You must pay costs of handling and shipping. Two shells for the KDEM model III scanner. One of them is stripped of all except the three fans, the sockets for the boards, and the sockets for plugs. The other includes the above items plus the two poser supplies (for Scanner and MAX) and the voltage transformer. One half-height shell for the Diablo 3200 Disk Drive. Two disk drive drawers (boards removed) -- that is, the mechanical portions of the disk drives. We also have some related items that MIGHT be available if someone is interested, possibly with minimal (negotiated) charges involved: Several of the removable disk packs (the current contents would need to be erased first, somehow), and a functioning HP 2649A terminal. Interested parties please contact me immediately. We will dispose of the bodies early next week (they are obstructing a hallway at present). Bob Kraft, CCAT (3) --------------------------------------------------------------41---- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 90 12:21:16 EST From: STAIRS@vm.epas.utoronto.ca Subject: IPA Stack Greetings, I posted a notice a couple weeks ago regarding an IPA transciption teaching tool we are developing. We were overwhelmed by the response. Please do not think that my silence means that I did not receive your messages. Rather than respond to each request individually, I am posting this notice to Humanist so everyone gets it. The program, a HyperCard stack called Phthong, is still under development. We shall be testing it in a course here in the early summer. It is my intention that we have a product ready to distribute for the fall term. We were not prepared for such a large response, but it is added incentive to press on. I hope to develop the program in such a way that it could run on either Macs or PCs. However, I expect the first release will run on Macs only. We are currently trying to figure out which is the best way to market the program. Like most of you I expect, we are neither familiar with the marketing steps necessary to bring a new product out, nor do we care to ever know these steps. So, right now we are trying to convince the unversity administration to set up sort of marketing mechanism for new products which we could then take advantage of. This all means that we are unclear how the program will be distributed, but we are developing it regardless. By the time the program is completed we should have all these details sorted out. The program will include a number of exercises designed to teach students the art of transcription. It will include some facility for the teacher to create her/his own exercises. In this way the program should have a broad appeal. Anyone who is interested should feel free to send me a note, and I will add their name to the list. When we are finished the production I will send a notice to everyone who has asked to be notified. Michael Stairs Site Coordinator Centre for Computing in the Humanities University of Toronto 416-978-6391 STAIRS@UTOREPAS