3.596 CD-ROM architecture? acronyms? (82)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Tue, 17 Oct 89 19:37:19 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 596. Tuesday, 17 Oct 1989.


(1) Date: Monday, 16 October 1989 2350-EST (13 lines)
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: CD-ROM Extended Architecture

(2) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 89 16:50-0400 (32 lines)
From: Greg.Lessard@QueensU.CA
Subject: Pronunciation query

(3) Date: 17 October 1989 (13 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: what do the terms mean?

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Date: Monday, 16 October 1989 2350-EST
From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS
Subject: CD-ROM Extended Architecture

Is anyone out there on HUMANIST knowledgeable about
"extended architecture" CD-ROM applications, which I take to
mean a transition phase between text-centered CD-ROM and
multiple-oriented future CDI (text, sound, sight, motion)?
I was asked to recommend potential sources of information
and/or advice on this subject. Greg Crane and Elli Mylonis?
Anyone else?

Bob Kraft (CCAT)
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 89 16:50-0400
From: Greg.Lessard@QueensU.CA
Subject: Pronunciation query

I am directing an M.A. thesis on English and French terminology in the area
of computer-assisted language learning. The student doing the thesis has
a substantial corpus of written texts in both languages. Among the items
contained in the texts, he has identified a series of acronyms used to
designate the field. These include:

CAI (computer-aided instruction)
CALI (computer-aided language instruction)
CALL (computer-aided language learning
CALT (computer-aided language teaching)
ICAI (intelligent computer-aided instruction)
ICALI (intelligent computer-aided language instruction)

EAO (enseignement assiste/ par ordinateur)
ELAO (enseignement des langues assiste/ par ordinateur)
EIA0 (enseignement intelligemment assiste/ par ordinateur)

The question he is currently looking at is whether or not these forms are
pronounced as independent letters (as in NHL for National Hockey League)
or as words (as in NATO for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). I have
my own intuitions and experience on this question, but I would be grateful
for a larger sample of data (as well as any other similar forms others might
have come across).

Greg Lessard
French Studies/Etudes franc,aises
Queen's University
<lessardg@qucdn.bitnet>
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Date: 17 October 1989
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: what do the terms mean?

Referring to the acronyms in the above note, it would also be good to
understand precisely what they mean. Is there, for example, a clear and
generally agreed upon distinction between CALL and CAI (or CALI), and if
so, what is it?



Willard McCarty