How do you say @ in x languages?  

A BBC feature on the @ sign
by BBC Science Correspondent, Richard Black
was broadcast over
The World Today, European Edition on March 12, 2003

First Second Third Posting to LINGUIST
Newsweek blurb (and bits in French)
BBC
Associated Press (11/16/2010)
Washington Post (10/2/05)
Webopedia
Natural History of @
Language Miniatures
World Wide Words
Tech Tidbit of the Week
Digest of reports on the @ sign
STC Capital Letter (vol. 33, no. 3, Nov. 2001; pdf)
Der Spiegel interview (in German)
Woher kommt die Klammeraffe (in German and English) Die Zeit 11/97 .pdf
Die Klammeraffe
Der Name @ (essay in German by Jannis K. Androutsopoulos
on names for the @ sign; .pdf file)
@ in Dutch: Reformatorisch Dagblad
More on @ in Dutch
Book on @ in Dutch
Danish more in Danish
Italian
Polish computer lexicon
Japanese
Vietnamese

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Stephen King's nasal uvular tap for clear /l/
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Phantom phrases, a.k.a Mondegreens (LINGUIST)
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We toss 'em–they're awesome: Mosaic rhyme (LINGUIST)
Query Summary 

Chocolate and other international words (LINGUIST)
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Phonetics URLs (LINGUIST)
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Books on tape, with notes and recommendations

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Ivy League Analytical English http://www.ivy.com.tw
Listen to sample broadcasts:
12/29/06 Come softly to me: song   entire program
11/16/06: Composition

Translations

Chinese One-Dish Meals  Chinese Dim Sum Microwave Cooking: Chinese Style I & II
Japanese Cuisine   Vegetarian Cooking   all by Wei-Chuan Publishing (Chinese to English)

Cheng Ch'ing-wen: Spring Rain another link
(Chinese to English)

Seeing with your Ears:
On the trail of the film hero "Daredevil":
Software for the blind transforms visual images into acoustic signals
Original: „Sehen mit dem Ohr“ by Janko Rottgers, Frankfurter Rundschau, April 25, 2003
(German to English)

Articles

艾莉英語教室 Learn English with Ally McBeal
敦煌英語教學雜誌 28
http://books.network.com.tw/WebPage/CET/28/main.htm
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/pubs/Ally_rev.pdf

進入教學的世界，體驗童謠的趣味 Teaching English in Rhyme
敦煌英語教學雜 21:38-43
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/pubs/children's_rhymes_rev.pdf

薪橋 台大導師月訊  第1期 90年3月1日
「顧忌」與「非遊戲」 'Scruples' and 'Ungame'
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/pubs/ungame_rev.pdf

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Book reviews for LINGUIST

Review of:

Lieber, Rochelle. 2004.
Morphology and Lexical Semantics.

Teschner, Richard V. & Stanley M. Whitley. 2004.
Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach

Shi, Yuzhi. 2002. The Establishment of Modern Chinese Grammar:
The Formation of the Resultative Construction and Its Effects.

Jerome L. Packard. 2000. The Morphology of Chinese:
A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach.

David L. E. Watt. 1994. The Phonology and Semology of
Intonation in English: An Instrumental and Systemic Perspective.

Paul A. Taylor. 1994. A Phonetic Model of Intonation in English.

Ferdinand de Saussure. 1993.Eisuke Komatsu and Roy Harris, ed. and trans.
Saussure's third course of lectures on general linguistics (1910-1911),
from the notebooks of Emile Constantin.


karchung's Amazon Reviews

This site has info on these Chinese language bookstores:
14. Lexis Books 樂學書局
15. Student Book Store 學生書局
16. San-min Shu-chu 三民書局
17. Southern Materials Center 南天書局
18. Caves Books 敦煌書局
plus lots of others

19. Crane's Publishing 文鶴出版社

20. 台灣ㄟ店 The Taiwan Shop
has very nice books on Taiwan, nature,
and aborigine culture; also CDs.
6 Xinsheng South Road, Section 3, Lane 76
台北市新生南路三段76巷6號
Phone:（02）23625799
Fax:（02）23632864
http://www.taiouan.com.tw/catalog/

21. For French books, go to: Le Pigeonnier 信鴿法國書店
9, Songjiang Rd, Lane 97 台北市松江路97巷9號

22. More bookstores in Taiwan

23. They sell CDs of world music, not books, but don't forget:
大大樹音樂圖像 Trees Music & Art, Inc.
http://www.treesmusic.com/


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How do we pick our partners?
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/tows_past_20011206.jhtml
http://www.imagotherapy.com/about.html

Read these books by Harville Hendrix before you take the plunge!
(Yes, he/she is just like your father/mother,
or whoever hurt you when you were growing up!)
Getting The Love You Want and Keeping The Love You Find
https://www.imagotherapy.com/secure/order.asp

Old pages for: Taipei First Girls Senior High 北一女

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Teachers, colleagues, friends

My advisor: Frederik (Frits) Kortlandt, Leiden University
http://www.kortlandt.nl/

Jeroen Wiedenhof, Leiden University
http://www.wiedenhof.nl/

Heleen Plaisier, Leiden University
http://www.lepcha.info/

Universiteit Leiden/Leiden University
http://www.leiden.edu/

Bernard Comrie
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~comrie/

Charles Li 李訥
University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.networkchinese.com/chineseprof/university/university/ucsbar/charlesli.html

David Branner 林德威
University of Maryland at College Park
http://www.languages.umd.edu/branner/

Chris Wen-chao Li 李文肇
San Francisco State University
http://online.sfsu.edu/~wenchao/

Richard Sproat
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://compling.ai.uiuc.edu/rws/

David Deterding
University of Brunei Darussalam
http://videoweb.nie.edu.sg/phonetic/pers/david.htm

Olle Kjellin, Växjö, Sweden
http://olle-kjellin.com

Chao-yang Lee, Ohio University
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~leec1/

Ang Ui-jin 洪惟仁, Yuan-ze University
http://www.uijin.idv.tw/

Shu-Chuan Tseng 曾淑娟
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/member/fulltime_12.html

Hugo Quené, Utrecht University
http://www.let.uu.nl/~Hugo.Quene/personal/quene.en.html

Colin Whiteley
Quicksilver Translate
http://quicksilvertranslate.com/

Colin Whiteley's translation blog: The translation bridge
http://www.thetranslationbridge.com

One-Soon Her 何萬順
National Chengchi University
http://ling.nccu.edu.tw/2003/index_e.htm
Chinese: http://ling.nccu.edu.tw/index_c.htm

Chuang Hung-che 莊宏哲
Artist and graphic arts designer
http://home.pchome.com.tw/art/chuanghungche/

Peter Shea, University of Minnesota
Philosophy: Ideas, Intuitions, and Images (blog)
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/shea0017/philosophy/

Tom Brennan
Links for the disabled, great short stories
http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

Peter Meijer
Seeingwithsound
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/

Greg Talovich (aka Yugan, 陶維極)
Wandering in Wulai (blog)
http://talovich.blogspot.com/

Michelle Wu
Michelle's Little Corner of the World
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/michelle-corner/

Blog: 我說故我在( I speak, therefore I am.)
http://blog.pixnet.net/jetwell2002/post/2933678

Eric Chung
http://140.120.11.107/~cinchurge/

Wu family blogs
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!T6PkFq2VFRnaD57yK6w9x6M-
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/shelly2668/

Chung Hwa
Ningbo NBSY Trading Co., Ltd.
http://www.nbsytrade.com.cn/index.htm

Faculty of the NTU Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures
http://www-ms.cc.ntu.edu.tw/~forex/facultylist.htm

NTU Ceiba3 Course Pages
http://ceiba3.cc.ntu.edu.tw/course_list.php

NTU Ceiba4 Course Pages
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/

NTU English Freeway
http://efreeway.avcenter.ntu.edu.tw/

NTU Writing Center
Help with English composition
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~avwrite/consultation/consultation.htm

臺大國際學術交流中心電子報
NTU Center for International Academic Exchanges
Newsletter
http://www.ciae.ntu.edu.tw/chinese/newsletter/newsletter.asp

NTU alumni career talks
http://career.ntu.edu.tw/schoolmate/schoolmate_index.htm

Graduate Institute of Linguistics, NTU 台大 語言學研究所
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/english_version/intro/index.htm

Introduction to linguistics, NTU 台大 英語語言學概論
http://140.112.8.140/course/09c4a8/

The Linguistic Society of Taiwan 台灣語言學學會
http://linguist.tw/
學會秘書何慧君小姐: language@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Academia Sinica 中央研究院
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/misc/all-unit/human.html

National Science Council 國家科學委員會
http://www.nsc.gov.tw/

Photos of Taiwan
http://www.pse100i.idv.tw/index2.html


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