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by jtauber
November 25th, 2016, 8:29 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Adding accents
Replies: 19
Views: 7296

Re: Adding accents

Jonathan Robie wrote:A really good starting point might be Greek Accents: A Student's Manual, by D.A. Carson.
Or https://github.com/jtauber/greek-accentuation
by jtauber
March 20th, 2016, 6:37 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Unicode Greek friendly Unix tools
Replies: 11
Views: 21981

Re: Unicode Greek friendly Unix tools

I'm finding that my awk | sort isn't working so well because the standard util 'sort' doesn't grok Unicode Greek (it treats the precomposed characters as if they don't exist). Any advice for basic Unicode Greek compliant tools, etc.? While I do basic stuff on the Unix command line, I switch to Pyth...
by jtauber
December 19th, 2015, 3:05 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Teaching lookalikes for a passage
Replies: 18
Views: 24409

Re: Teaching lookalikes for a passage

Emma, I like your exercises and totally agree we should draw more from K-3 reading/phonics worksheets. Whenever I browse that section at B&N I can't help but wish similar things existed for Greek.

James
by jtauber
December 19th, 2015, 3:04 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Teaching lookalikes for a passage
Replies: 18
Views: 24409

Re: Teaching lookalikes for a passage

Just going by the normalised column in MorphGNT/SBLGNT, there are 289 sets[1] that are identical once diacritics and capitalisation are removed. (If you don't drop the iota subscript, you get 130). Doing a Levenshtein distance between form pairs (with decomposed unicode characters) gives 5,442 pairs...
by jtauber
December 17th, 2015, 9:55 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 21619

Re: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics

I think the term "learn" needs to be looked at. Forms of the verb to be are not learnt the same way as the indeclinables. It is knowledge to know it is the verb to be, it is a skill to know that the 2nd singular is there or has to be produced in a second singular situation, and so on. Red...
by jtauber
December 17th, 2015, 8:31 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 21619

Re: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics

Concrete nouns can often be learnt in isolation but almost every thing else should probably be learnt in multi-word constructions. Even nouns should probably be learnt in constructions with the article (based on 1LA stuff I've read about acquisition of gender/agreement). With our treebanks, it's fai...
by jtauber
December 16th, 2015, 4:04 pm
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 21619

Re: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics

Looks like you are limiting the things that can appear in that slot to a known vocabulary? Just a search in the GNT where DET N τοῦ θεοῦ occurs. Relevant, I think, to Emma's original question is that verse references are given. I can imagine that might encourage early students "oh wow, I can r...
by jtauber
December 16th, 2015, 10:00 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 21619

Re: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics

Here's a little prototype I wrote up a couple of years ago focused just on the pivot schema: the ____ of God.
by jtauber
December 16th, 2015, 9:28 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 21619

Re: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics

If I had a reverse interlinear in machine-actionable form, it would be a fun exercise to show a passage from the NT in *English* with only the common words (by underlying Greek frequency) shown: "And the _____ day, Jesus ____ to _____ and _____ the ______. And they said to him ______. And he re...
by jtauber
December 16th, 2015, 2:12 am
Forum: Teaching Methods
Topic: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics
Replies: 14
Views: 21619

Re: Telling Students Vocabulary Coverage Statistics

The context of those vocabulary stats (both why I calculated them in the first place and how I talk about them in presentations) is largely to point out (to teachers, not students) how much can be improved by not *just* considering frequency of lexeme. A large part of the "New Kind of Graded Re...

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