--- Forwarded Message from "Richard Kunst" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Richard Kunst" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: #6784 Looking for Concordancer >Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:36:32 -0400 >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Importance: Normal ------------------ On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:59:14 -0600 Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >Subject: Looking for Concordancer > > 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 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ The Humanities Computing Laboratory A Nonprofit Education and Research Corporation 301 W. Main St., Suite 400-I Durham, NC 27701 USA Tel. (919) 667-9556, (919) 656-5915 Fax: (919) 667-9556 E-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.humancomp.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/