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Re: JALT PRONUNCIATION SIG

pronsig_mod — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:20:39 GMT

I asked around about a JALT PronSIG after last year's conference and the interest was rather vague and very non-committal. There was plenty of interest in

JALT PRONUNCIATION SIG

literacyacrosscultures — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:17:02 GMT

There was one for a little bit. As with several other SIGs trying to form back in the late 90s and early 2000s, if asked, I would reply that, based on my own

Re: Language (and even speech) as gesture

literacyacrosscultures — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:44:42 GMT

I think this view from 'speech processing' (by way of psycholinguistics I believe) is also convergent on what I'm discussing here. They should make this

Re: Language (and even speech) as gesture

literacyacrosscultures — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:13:49 GMT

Ahh Gentilucci hooked up with Corballis. So one of the 'mirror neuron'people is working with Corballis, one of the 'gestural language' people. Thanks for the

Re: Language (and even speech) as gesture

sues — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:50:02 GMT

I am enjoying your discussion, though some of it out of my range - I'm not a linguist. I came through language - Psychology -- Psycholinguistics, so procedural

Re: That paper

sues — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:18:22 GMT

That's good! Very neat. Thanks S ________________________________ From: literacyacrosscultures To: iatefl_pronsig@... Sent:

Re: Language (and even speech) as gesture

literacyacrosscultures — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:16:18 GMT

It is also interesting to note how the phenomenological philosopher, Merleau-Ponty anticipates theoretically and conceptually these views of language. This

Language (and even speech) as gesture

literacyacrosscultures — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:07:51 GMT

I think the book from OUP is edited by those two American academics and is a collection of papers, but I might be wrong. They are certainly not the FIRST to do

Re: That paper

literacyacrosscultures — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:51:13 GMT

... Oops. Finished the sentence but not the thought. Rise in pitch and greater stress falls on some syllables. Not all. Which brings me back to the issues of

Re: That paper

literacyacrosscultures — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:40:09 GMT

... I should add: the word as I romanized it for the discussion reflects the WRITTEN form of the word in Japanese. Japanese would use three syllabic characters

Re: That paper

literacyacrosscultures — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:34:11 GMT

... And bodily experiencing language. In EFL in Japan, the assumption is almost like students are supposed to be 'bar code scanners' of text, which is why they

Re: That paper

literacyacrosscultures — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:27:16 GMT

Correcting my recollection. Some very active authors on the topic of 'teaching EFL to Japanese learners' cited the work of Cutler. CJ

Re: That paper

literacyacrosscultures — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:25:51 GMT

I took a quick look at the Cutler papers. I'm not really sure what the authors mean by 'segmentation'. It seems they are working with syllables but referring

Re: That paper

sues — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:06:17 GMT

Quite true CJ. And i always think that TV example tells us something really important about what language is. Coming from the field of mirro neuron systems,

Re: That paper

literacyacrosscultures — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:05:55 GMT

Two more papers you might want to refer to: http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/phonolab/r-atics2/abstracts%20pdf/Labrune.pdf