Comments for corpora http://wmtang.org Warren M. Tang on corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics and language acquisition Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:38:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on How to convert Word Document files into plain-text files by signature103 http://wmtang.org/2008/01/11/how-to-convert-word-document-files-into-plain-text-files/#comment-208 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:38:48 +0000 http://corpora.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/how-to-convert-word-document-files-into-plain-text-files/#comment-208 Glad to have solved your problem. It isn’t a pretty method but it works.

]]> Comment on How to convert Word Document files into plain-text files by John Endel http://wmtang.org/2008/01/11/how-to-convert-word-document-files-into-plain-text-files/#comment-207 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:23:23 +0000 http://corpora.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/how-to-convert-word-document-files-into-plain-text-files/#comment-207 Thanks so much! With the Newgrounds redesign, all of my stories were looking ridiculous, because it kept changing my special characters to jumbled up nonsense!

]]> Comment on Learning languages: the importance of motivation, repetition, authenticity, proportion of time by Kevin http://wmtang.org/2012/01/30/learning-languages-the-importance-of-motivation-repetition-authenticity-proportion-of-time/#comment-200 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:57:21 +0000 http://corpora.wordpress.com/?p=580#comment-200 Hello Warren,

I follow your blog quite regularly and would like to reach you because I am doing corpus analysis of Japanese texts and would like to pick your brain.
If you would be so kind as to email me, I would really appreciate it.

Keep up the good work!

Sincerely,
Kevin

]]> Comment on Language and emotions are separate by Callum J Hackett http://wmtang.org/2011/11/04/language-and-emotions-are-separate/#comment-188 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:24:20 +0000 http://wmtang.org/?p=521#comment-188 Yes, I’m fascinated by nationality in music. Even with countries with the same musical traditions, such as Germany, Russia, England, and the Scandinavian countries, it’s very often clear where the music comes from. Some of this is due to the influence of the country’s folk music, though there’s more to it than that. I’ve been searching for something that properly analyses and reduces these feelings, as I’m sure this sense of nationality is buried within certain harmonic progressions and orchestrations and melodic shapes etc., but I’m yet to find something like it.

]]> Comment on Language and emotions are separate by signature103 http://wmtang.org/2011/11/04/language-and-emotions-are-separate/#comment-187 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:16:36 +0000 http://wmtang.org/?p=521#comment-187 I can understand that.

Slightly different, every time I hear the national anthem of a country I can imagine or feel their personality as such. This I hear the Brazilian and Japanese anthems at the start of the world volleyball championships, and what a contrast they were. The Brazilian national anthem was so upbeat and lively, and the Japanese, so solemn and serious.

]]> Comment on Language and emotions are separate by Callum J Hackett http://wmtang.org/2011/11/04/language-and-emotions-are-separate/#comment-186 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:36:27 +0000 http://wmtang.org/?p=521#comment-186 An interesting off-shoot from this is that it has been suggested that the emotions we are able to perceive in music (again, a bunch of sounds that are not intrinsically emotional) is partly dependent on the emotions that we *hear* in language. For example, the intervals in the speech (or speech sounds, if not words) of a sad person are shared with the minor scale in Western tonality, which is perceived as sad too.

]]> Comment on C4N Y0U R3AD 7H15? by kathryningrid http://wmtang.org/2011/11/02/c4n-y0u-r3ad-7h15/#comment-185 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:29:23 +0000 http://wmtang.org/?p=512#comment-185 “Easy” being a relative term for reading in my case, then yes, it was just as easy for me to read the ‘alternative version’ as regular text. I understand how the visual-similarity substitution used here makes it so workable–it’s “normal” text that does all of the irrational dancing in my brain! :)

]]> Comment on C4N Y0U R3AD 7H15? by signature103 http://wmtang.org/2011/11/02/c4n-y0u-r3ad-7h15/#comment-184 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:16:13 +0000 http://wmtang.org/?p=512#comment-184 Interesting. So was this very easy for you to read?

The symbols really are not random or irrational in this case. They are chosen for their resemblance to the letters they replace. To me shows a flexibility in the human mind to recognise different writing, hand or typed. That accuracy is not important. How important this difference is for second language readers who have little contact with the first language. The difficulties compound.

How this pose a problem to people with dyslexia or other similar literacy difficulties I would like to more about.

]]> Comment on C4N Y0U R3AD 7H15? by kathryningrid http://wmtang.org/2011/11/02/c4n-y0u-r3ad-7h15/#comment-183 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:03:31 +0000 http://wmtang.org/?p=512#comment-183 It certainly wouldn’t surprise me if these things are easier to decipher if you (like me) happen to be dyslexic, in which case one is accustomed to reading things upside down, sideways, with letters and symbols intermixed irrationally, and/or by skimming to gather ‘generalized’ information visually that then gets compiled into specifics. Just a guess . . . but intriguing all the same!

]]> Comment on Language and emotions are separate by signature103 http://wmtang.org/2011/11/04/language-and-emotions-are-separate/#comment-175 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:12:16 +0000 http://wmtang.org/?p=521#comment-175 Thanks, Yearstricken.

I love your sense of humour, too.

But I am not sure how versatile this blog is, though.

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