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>Subject: RE: #6784 Looking for Concordancer
>Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:36:32 -0400
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:59:14 -0600 Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >Subject: Looking for Concordancer
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> I am looking [for] recommendations for a concordance program, Mac or PC,
> for our Spanish linguistics professor. The use will be analysis of
> transcribed spoken text of conversations. Low cost would be nice, so
> that students could have their own copies, but commercial software is
> also of interest.
Hi Derek,
Prof. Marjorie Chan of Ohio State U. gave a presentation "Concordancers and
Concordances: Tools for Chinese Language Teaching and Research" at the
ACTFL/Chinese Language Teachers Association annual meeting last November. It
was published in the most recent _Journal of the CLTA_. Marjorie has a
marvelous website (http://deall.ohio-state.edu/chan.9/) with all kind of
resources for Chinese and multilingual computing, and it didn't let me down.
Here is a PDF version of the article on her site:
http://deall.ohio-state.edu/chan.9/articles/Chan_JCLTA-2002.pdf
Although she focuses on a lot of Chinese-specific concordancing issues
(e.g., Chinese text doesn't have explicit word breaks), most of the various
concordancers that she reviews, such as "ConcApp 2.0" (freeware),
"Concordance 3.0" (US$89), and "MonoConc Pro 2.0" (US$85) (see. esp. pp.
45-50) would be applicable to Spanish and other languages too. Her article
also refers to other concordance-related articles.
Speaking of Spanish and concordances, I wonder if your professor is familiar
with Prof. Miguel Garci-Gomez's rich website at Duke, which makes nice use
of concordances and other linguistic tools for the study of Spanish
classical literature:
http://www.duke.edu/web/cibertextos/
Best wishes,
Rick Kunst
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