LINGUIST List 10.936

Wed Jun 16 1999

Qs: Academic Presentations, Retroflex Consonants

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Atsuko Umesaki, Questionaire on Academic Presentations
2. Matthew J. Makashay, Retroflex Consonants

Questionnaire on academic presentations. Please help us learn more 
about them!
 
The JACET (Japan Association of College English Teachers) Kansai 
Chapter Oral English Special Interest Group is conducting a research 
project on academic presentations. We would like to ask your help in 
responding to this SHORT questionnaire. 

Please contact y_ishikawakufs.ac.jp to receive the questionnaire.

Dear Linguists,

I am currently looking for information on the phonological patterning
of retroflex consonants, and apical consonants, especially with
regards to any assimilatory processes found in any languages which
have these sounds. Bhat (1974) notes that historically, retroflex
consonants often are limited to contexts where there are only back
vowels either preceding them or following them, referring mostly to
Native American languages and Indic languages.. Though Bhat sites many
languages where retroflex consonants have such skewed distributions -
I have had much difficulty in finding sources illustrating this
phenomenon. I would really appreciate hearing about any phonological
processes - whether synchronic or diachronic - where retroflex
consonants behave as 'back' consonants in some way , or where there is
any implication between retroflex consonants and back vowels.

Please reply directly to me at amillerling.ohio-state.edu and I will
post a summary to the list later.

Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen
Dept. of Linguistics
222 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210

Phone: (614)292-8878
Email: amillerling.ohio-state.edu
web: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~amiller/