Volume 20, Winter 1998

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    The University of Calgary phonetic inventory: an instructional tool for students and teachers of phonetics
    (University of Calgary, 1998-01) Mills, Timothy Ian
    This article is an overview of a multimedia phonetics program being developed at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Doctor Michael B. Dobrovolsky as an instructional supplement to introductory phonetics courses. The program's name is the University of Calgary Phonetic Inventory, or UCPI. UCPI is a program being developed under funding to Professor Dobrovolsky of the Linguistics department from LEE, the University of Calgary's Learning Enhancement Envelope program. As a tool to help develop the phonetic perception of budding linguists, UCPI will provide students with a large quantity of transcription practice through exposure to digitally recorded word lists in different languages. It will also include a series of tutorials to guide them systematically through the topics covered in an introductory phonetics course.
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    Var mı, yok mu? ("Does it or doesn't it exist?"): the Altaic dilemma (or: Aru, nai?)
    (University of Calgary, 1998-01) Mills, Timothy Ian
    This paper is an overview of arguments for the relatedness of the two languages demonstrated in the title - Turkish and Japanese - and the series of language groups between the two, including the rest of the Turkic languages, the Mongolian and Manchu-Tungus families, and Korean, the close sister of Japanese. The Altaic family is a hypothesized genetic unity including the subfamilies of Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus, as well as the fringe languages of Japanese and Korean. The great geographical expanse of these languages encourages scepticism until one considers that Indo-European is said to reach from Icelandic to Hindi. Having had less attention in studies of historical linguistics than lndo-European, the existence of the Altaic family is still hotly debated among scholars.