LINGUIST List 3.198

Mon 02 Mar 1992

Qs: Long Vowels, Flapping, Aphasia

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  • Martin Wynne, Laugh and the world laughs with you
  • Michael Sikillian/Annotext, 3.189 Summary: On-Line Spanish Resources
  • , Lang. with no final long V
  • , Query: Flapping
  • Mary Howe, Recording equipment
  • , Phonetic font
  • Dave Eddington, Natural Languages
  • Ed Battistella, Query

    Message 1: Laugh and the world laughs with you

     Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 15:37:22 GMLaugh and the world laughs with you
    From: Martin Wynne <LNP5MWcms1.leeds.ac.uk>
    Subject: Laugh and the world laughs with you


    How to describe the initial verb in the following sentences?

    (1) Laugh and the world laughs with you. (2) Go and I'll never speak to you again.

    They look like imperatives, as in:

    (3) Go and never come back.

    but the second clause in (1) and (2) is declarative. What is more, the meaning is not that of a normal imperative. Is it a case of imperative in form, but conditional in content? Or is it not an imperative at all? Also, is there something odd about the coordination of two different sentence types in this way? So perhaps it isn't really coordination (as in "Go and tell him").

    Someone tells me that Jesperson calls this ellipsis, with 'if...then' elided. But where does 'and' come from then?

    Message 2: 3.189 Summary: On-Line Spanish Resources

     Date: 27 Feb 92 19:20:49 EST
    From: Michael Sikillian/Annotext <76264.1323compuserve.com>
    Subject: 3.189 Summary: On-Line Spanish Resources


    I would like some information about the CLR, specifically, dictionaries available in electronic form. Thank you.

    Michael Sikillian Annotext

    Message 3: Lang. with no final long V

     Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 14:29:43 ESLang. with no final long V
    From: <sxy646HUXLEY.anu.edu.au>
    Subject: Lang. with no final long V


    I am looking for languages in which long vowels are found only in non-final position, like modern colloquial Arabic. Can any body help me?

    Message 4: Query: Flapping

     Date: Sun, 1 Mar 92 17:03:30 ESTQuery: Flapping
    From: <Alexis_Manaster_RamerMTS.cc.Wayne.edu>
    Subject: Query: Flapping


    I would appreciate any references to experimental work on the problem of flapping in English, bearing on the issue of whether forms like beating vs. beading are homophonous. The only work I know of is a paper by Fox and Terbeek from the 1970's.

    Message 5: Recording equipment

     Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 14:02:11 CSRecording equipment
    From: Mary Howe <HOWEUKANVM.bitnet>
    Subject: Recording equipment


    I'd like to know what kind of recording equipment other people use for recording conversation. I've used a Walkman-type tape recorder with an external microphone from Radio Shack in the past, but my mike broke recently. It was really good because it was flat, black, and about the size of a credit card and therefore quite unobtrusive. Unfortunately, Radio Shack doesn't make this kind anymore. Although I let people know ahead of time that I will be recording their conversations, I want the tape recorder to be as unobtrusive as possible. My local stereo & music equipment stores have suggested either lapel mikes, which are DEFINITELY too obvious, or big flat omnidirectional mikes (which I can't remember the name of). Any ideas?

    Message 6: Phonetic font

     Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 11:30:46 Phonetic font
    From: <SHLONSKYuni2a.unige.ch>
    Subject: Phonetic font


    Does anybody know where I can obtain a font of phoentic (ie.g. IPA) characters than I can use with Wordperfect and print on a HP Laserjet III? Thanks, Ur Shlonsky

    Message 7: Natural Languages

     Date: Fri, 28 Feb 92 10:35:51 -0Natural Languages
    From: Dave Eddington <eddingccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
    Subject: Natural Languages


    What exactly is meant by the term 'natural languages?' Is this used to exclude Esperanto and other synthetic languages? In this case, why is it so important to say, for example, 'devoicing of word final obstruents is common in natural languages,' instead of saying 'languages' period?

    Message 8: Query

     Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 07:33:51 CSTQuery
    From: Ed Battistella <battistecis.uab.edu>
    Subject: Query


    A while ago I recalled seeing an article dealing with the portrayal of aphasic speech in John Irving's The World According to Garp vis a vis Jakobson's Child Language, Aphasia, and Phonological Universals monograph. But unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw this paper or who the author was. Does anyone know?

    I'm also curious if anyone knows of any video resources on aphasia suitable for showing to an undergrad class?

    If people send reply to me directly, I'll summarize and post to the group.