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Bob Close, author of love me sailor and Eliza Callaghan, at the Cafe Royale, Paris c.1948-49 [picture] /
Copyright restrictions apply.; Condition: good.; Part of the collection Albert Tucker, family and friends.; Related material: Albert Tucker, family and friends, [2]; National Library of Australia Pictorial Section PIC/6451/1-7; Exhibited: Albert Tucker family and friends 50 years of photographs, North Caulfield, Vic. Aug. 5-29 Aug. 1998
Shilluk_TongaDialect_June2014ToJuly2015_LexicographyInProgress
This submission contains lexicographic materials on Shilluk, in a table format, and recordings on which these lexicographic data are based. For each of over 530 lemmas, we provide a phonological transcription (field1), an orthographic transcription (field2), word class identification (field3), illustrative forms (field4), and explanation of the meaning (field5). When a form is underlined, this means that it has been recorded. These recordings are also included. These audio recordings represent the voice of the second author, a native speaker of Shilluk who grew up in Tonga, the southernmost Shilluk town; they are also made publicly available. The phonological analysis on which the transcription is based is laid out in Remijsen, Ayoker & Mills (2011). This analysis was later revised in relation to the tone system (Remijsen & Ayoker 2014). The data in this dataset were collected from June 2014 to July 2015.Remijsen, Bert. (2015). Shilluk_TongaDialect_June2014ToJuly2015_LexicographyInProgress, 2014-2015 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language. http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/ds/284
Phonetics and phonology of the three-way laryngeal contrast in Madurese
Madurese, a Western Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the Indonesian island
of Madura, exhibits a three-way laryngeal contrast distinguishing between voiced,
voiceless unaspirated and voiceless aspirated stops and an unusual consonant-vowel
(CV) co-occurrence restriction. The CV co-occurrence restriction is of phonological
interest given the patterning of voiceless aspirated stops with voiced stops rather than
with voiceless unaspirated stops, raising the question of what phonological feature
they may share. Two features have been linked with the CV co-occurrence
restriction: Advanced Tongue Root [ATR] and Lowered Larynx [LL]. However, as
no evidence of voicing during closure for aspirated stops is observed and no other
acoustic measures except voice onset time (VOT), fundamental frequency (F0),
frequencies of the first (F1) and the second (F2) formants and closure duration
relating to the proposed features have been conducted, it remains an open question
which acoustic properties are shared by voiced and aspirated stops.
Three main questions are addressed in the thesis. The first question is what acoustic
properties voiced and voiceless aspirated stops share to the exclusion of voiceless
unaspirated stops. The second question is whether [ATR] or [LL] accounts for the
patterning together of voiceless aspirated stops with voiced stops. The third question
is what the implications of the results are for a transparent phonetics-phonology
mapping that expects phonological features to have phonetic correlates associated
with them. In order to answer the questions, we looked into VOT, closure duration,
F0, F1, F2 and a number of spectral measures, i.e. H1*-A1*, H1*-A2*, H1*-A3*,
H1*-H2*, H2*-H4* and CPP. We recorded fifteen speakers of Madurese (8 females,
7 males) reading 188 disyllabic Madurese words embedded in a sentence frame.
The results show that the three-way voicing categories in Madurese have different
VOT values. The difference in VOT is robust between voiced stops on the one hand
and voiceless unaspirated and voiceless aspirated stops on the other. Albeit
statistically significant, the difference in VOT values between voiceless unaspirated
and voiceless aspirated stops is relatively small. With regard to closure duration, we
found that there is a difference between voiced stops on the one hand and voiceless
unaspirated and aspirated stops on the other. We also found that female speakers
distinguish F0 for the three categories while male speakers distinguish between F0
for voiced stops on the one hand and voiceless unaspirated and voiceless aspirated
stops on the other. The results for spectral measures show that there are no
significant differences in H1*-A1*, H1*-A3*, H1*-H2*, H2*-H4* and CPP between
vowels adjacent to voiced and voiceless aspirated stops. In contrast, there are
significant differences in these measures between vowels adjacent to voiced and
voiceless unaspirated stops and between vowels adjacent to voiceless aspirated and
voiceless unaspirated stops.
Regarding the question whether voiced and voiceless aspirated stops share certain
acoustic properties, our findings show that they do. The acoustic properties they
share are H1*-A1* for both genders, H1*-H2* for females, H1*-A3* and H2*-H4*
for males, and CPP for females at vowel onset and for males at vowel midpoint.
However, they do not share such acoustic properties as VOT, closure duration and
F0. Voiceless unaspirated and voiceless aspirated stops can be distinguished by
VOT, F0 and spectral measures, i.e. H1*-A1*, H1*-A3*, H1*-H2*, H2*-H4* and
CPP. However, these two voiceless stop categories have similar closure durations.
As regards the question if [+ATR] or [+LL] might be responsible for the patterning
together of voiceless aspirated stops with voiced stops, our findings suggest that
either feature appears to be plausible. Acoustic evidence that lends support to the
feature [+ATR] includes lower F1 and greater spectral tilt measures, i.e. H1*-A1*,
H1*-A3*, H1*-H2* and H2*-H4*, and lower CPP values. Acoustic evidence that
supports the feature [+LL] includes lower F1 and greater spectral tilt measures, i.e.
H1*-A1*, H1*-A3*, H1*-H2* and H2*-H4*, and lower CPP values. However, the
fact that voiceless aspirated stops are voiceless during closure raises a problem for
the feature [+ATR] and the fact that F0 for voiceless aspirated stops is higher than
for voiced stops also presents a problem for the feature [+LL].
The fact that not all acoustic measures fit in well with either feature is problematic to
the idea that the relationship between phonetics and phonology is transparent in the
sense that phonological features can be directly transformed into their phonetic
correlates. Following the view that not all phonological features may not be expected
to be phonetically grounded, for example, when they are related to historical sound
change, we hold the idea of a phonetics-phonology mapping which allows for other
non-phonetic factors to account for a phonological phenomenon. We also provide
historical and loanword evidence which could support that voiceless aspirated stops
in Madurese may have derived from earlier voiced stops, which probably retain their
historical laryngeal contrast through phonologisation
Albert Lewkowitz, 1883 - Nov. 11, 1954.
Bibliography of the works of philosopher and author Albert Lewkowitz.Philosopher and author, 1883-1954.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Dinka Bor Dialects 2010 to 2012
The dataset consists mostly of speech recordings. At the center are 1766 elicited Dinka utterances (wav format), collected through controlled elicitation from 14 speakers of the Bor dialects of Dinka. They are accompanied by annotations and f0-related files. In addition, the dataset includes a perception study carried out with 6 Dinka people. The dataset was collected in order to investigate the phonological contrast between early- vs. late-aligned falling contours in Dinka. This motivation is laid out in detail in a published paper: Remijsen, Bert (2013). Tonal alignment is contrastive in falling contours in Dinka. Language 89(2), 297-327.Remijsen, Bert. (2013). Dinka_BorDialects_2010to2012_controlled_VerbForms, 2010-2012 [Dataset]. http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/ds/109
Franco (Albert M.) interview, 2000
Rhodes, GreeceAlbert was born November 10, 1914 to immigrant parents Rosa Boullissa and Marco Franco of the Island of Rhodes. He attended Leschi Elementary, Garfield High School and graduated from the University of Washington and University of Washington Law School Class of 1939. He served in the US Army Intelligence Corps. Returning to Seattle, he became a founding partner of the law firm Franco, Asia, Bensussen and Coe, and practiced immigration and business law, also serving as the representative of the Mexican Embassy in the Northwest. Albert was an early civil rights advocate, and helped author King County's Civil Rights Ordinance. He also served on the King County Human Rights Commission. A strong philanthropic supporter of the Jewish Community and United Way, Albert was past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and was active in the Anti-Defamation League, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Jewish Committee. In this interview Mr. Franco discusses the lawsuit of Eugene Levy vs. Jewish Family and Child Service (JFCS) of 1948. This accession is part of the Washington State Jewish Archives.To request a high resolution or uncompressed reproduction, or to obtain permission to use any portion of this item, contact the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Email: [email protected]. Please reference the Digital ID Number
Albert Einstein with Helen Dukas, Peter Bucky, Frida Sarsen-Bucky, Gustav Bucky and dog in garden.
Digital ImageDigital ImageDigital ImageGustav bucky was a German physicist and radiologist, best known for his work with scattered x-rays which was improved upon by Hollis E. Potter and later came to be known as the Bucky-Potter grid. He also worked with Albert Einstein to patent a “light intensity self-adjusting camera.”Frida Sarson-Buckywrote musical scores, poems, and stories for children. She married Gustav Bucky in 1910. The Bucky family emigrated to the United States of America in 1923, settling in New York City. They returned to Germany for a brief time in 1930 before escaping persecution and moving back to the USA in 1933.Peter Bucky was a radiologist and author. He wrote "The Private Albert Einstein" based on his conversations and interactions with Einstein himself and his father's friendship with him.Helen Dukas was Albert Einstein's personal secretary
Albert Einstein with his son-in-law Rudolf Kayser in Saranac Lake, NY.
Digital ImageDigital ImageRudolf Kayser was a German literary historian and author. He was married to Albert Einstein's stepdaughter, Ilse Lowenthal Einstein, until her death in 1934. In 1935, he emigrated to the United States, teaching German and European literature at Brandeis University.Record added to DigiTool. Aleph record suppressed. J. Palmisano 09/15/2010
Franco (Albert M.) interview, 1978
Rhodes, GreeceAlbert was born November 10, 1914 to immigrant parents Rosa Boullissa and Marco Franco of the Island of Rhodes. He attended Leschi Elementary, Garfield High School and graduated from the University of Washington and University of Washington Law School Class of 1939. He served in the US Army Intelligence Corps. Returning to Seattle, he became a founding partner of the law firm Franco, Asia, Bensussen and Coe, and practiced immigration and business law, also serving as the representative of the Mexican Embassy in the Northwest. Albert was an early civil rights advocate, and helped author King County's Civil Rights Ordinance. He also served on the King County Human Rights Commission. A strong philanthropic supporter of the Jewish Community and United Way, Albert was past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and was active in the Anti-Defamation League, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Jewish Committee.
Albert Franco tells of his family's life on the Isle of Rhodes; why they left; how they came to Seattle. He tells of his father, Marco Franco's, achievements in business and of his father's extensive participation in community affairs, in the Sephardic community and in the community in general. He tells of his own education, his career as a lawyer, his war service in the Army Intelligence, and of his work in the community. He experienced discrimination by his fellow Jews when no Sephardic student could join a Jewish fraternity or sorority. This interview gives illuminating insights concerning the history of an early day Sephardic family and how a child who grew up in that era reacted as shown in his community work as as adult. His account of his father, Marco Franco, as a liaison between the various segments in the community is interesting.
This accession is part of the Washington State Jewish Archives.To request a high resolution or uncompressed reproduction, or to obtain permission to use any portion of this item, contact the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. Email: [email protected]. Please reference the Digital ID Number
[Letter from Albert K. Epstein to Dr. Meyer Bodansky - November 20, 1930]
Letter from Albert K. Epstein to Dr. Meyer Bodansky suggesting that he read a critique an author wrote on his textbook
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