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Newsletter September 12, No. 45



                      C S L I   N E W S L E T T E R
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September 12, 1985              Stanford                       Vol. 2, No. 45
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     A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and
     Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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         CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR *THIS* THURSDAY, September 12, 1985

   12 noon		TINLunch
     Ventura Hall       ``Free Word Order in GPSG'' 
     Conference Room    by Arnold Zwicky
			Discussion led by Hans Uszkoreit, SRI and CSLI

   2:15 p.m.		CSLI Talk
     Ventura Hall	``Arithmetical Truth and Hidden Higher-Order Concepts''
     Seminar Room	Daniel Isaacson, Oxford University

   3:30 p.m.		Tea
     Ventura Hall		
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         CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR *NEXT* THURSDAY, September 19, 1985

   12 noon		TINLunch
     Ventura Hall       ``Some Remarks on the Relationship of Mind to 
     Conference Room    Meaning and Language''
			Discussion led by Daniel Isaacson, Oxford University
			(Abstract on page 1)

   2:15 p.m.		CSLI Talk
     Ventura Hall	No talk this week
     Seminar Room	

   3:30 p.m.		Tea
     Ventura Hall		
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                    ABSTRACT FOR NEXT WEEK'S TINLUNCH
  ``Some Remarks on the Relationship of Mind to Meaning and Language''

     These remarks will be attempting to point toward a mind-based
   approach to meaning and language, and to say something as to why one
   might not be persuaded by considerations which have been taken as
   disallowing such an approach and as requiring rather that
   understanding of the phenomenon of language must underlie our
   understanding of mind.  This perspective is partially motivated by
   focusing attention on progression of the infant from pre-verbal states
   of mind to linguistic expression.  Access to pre-verbal mental states
   as required on this approach may be provided by psychoanalysis, in
   particular by the work of Melanie Klein.  In these terms, basic
   cognitive and emotional development constitute two aspects of a single
   process.					--Daniel Isaacson

Page 2                     CSLI Newsletter                  September 12, 1985
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                                 TALK
    ``Crossing the Rubicon: From a Physics of Dead Coordinate Spaces
               to a Physics of Living Coordinate Spaces''
   Dr. Peter Kugler, The Crump Institute for Medical Engineering, UCLA
                   Monday, September 23, 1985, 2:15pm

      This talk will be about the Ecological (Gibsonian) view of
   language, and will concentrate upon the conceptual tools which the
   Ecological approach considers necessary for the study of language.  A
   more complete abstract will appear in next week's newsletter.
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                         ARTICULATORY PHONETICS
                             Osamu Fujimura
                         AT&T Bell Laboratories

   A one-week course sponsored by the Linguistics Department and CSLI.

	Place: Seminar Room, CSLI, Stanford University
	Dates: Tuesday, September 17 - Monday, September 23
	Hours: Tuesday 2-5, WThFM 10-12, 2-5

   Course description:
      The current status of articulatory studies will be reviewed with an
   emphasis on recent findings using a computer-controlled x-ray
   microbeam system.  The movement patterns of articulatory organs such
   as the tongue, the lower lip, the mandible and the velum reveal strong
   prosodic effects on what usually are considered segmental gestures,
   e. g. vowel gestures.  The temporal organization of the
   multidimensional articulatory patterns cannot be explained by the
   conventional segment concatenation models.  Some new principles of
   phonetic organization will be examined, and their implications
   concerning phonological representations of speech will be discussed.
      A relatively large sample of microbeam (pellet movement) data will
   be provided for student exercise, using the phonetics laboratory's
   interactive computer facility and specially prepared analysis tools.
   A two-hour lecture in the morning will be normally followed by
   laboratory work using the graphics terminals during the afternoon
   (and, if there is demand, during the evening as well).
      No particular background knowledge will be presupposed, and there
   is no registration fee. If you expect to attend, please contact Paul
   Kiparsky at CSLI, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
   94305 (net address: Kiparsky@CSLI.ARPA).

   Course Outline

   Tuesday	2-5	Anatomy: Articulatory organs, observation and
   			  measurement methods
   Wednesday	10-12	Physics: Linear systems and acoustics of speech
   			  production; perception
		2-5	Lab setup and basic demo
   Thursday	10-12	Some observations from X-ray microbeam data
		2-5	Exercise (Lab)
   Friday	10-12	Temporal organization of speech
		2-5	Exercise (Lab)
   Monday	10-12	Models of speech production in relation to phonology
		2-5	Overall discussion
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