LINGUIST List 12.1219

Wed May 2 2001

Qs: Speaking Rate Studies, Yaghnobi Sentence

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1. Paul Kerswill, Speaking rate differences
2. Henkelmann Peter, Yaghnobi sentence?

Dear List Members,

To help with a grant application we are working on, I'd like to know if
anyone knows of research on:

- differences in speaking rate between languages

- differences in speaking rate between varieties of the same language

- differences in speaking rate between different social groups, including
age groups

- reports and stereotypes about differences in speaking rate

In our project, we would like to put suppositions about the above onto a
firmer empirical footing.

Many thanks

Paul Kerswill

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Paul Kerswill 
School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies
University of Reading
Whiteknights, PO Box 218 
Reading RG6 6AA, UK
tel. +44 (0)118 987 5123 ext. 7462
fax +44 (0)118 975 3365
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/cl/slals/kerswill.htm
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Hello,

does anyone know of a sentence in the Yaghnobi
language (belonging to the Northeastern Iranian
languages) that simultaneously contains a FULL subject
and a FULL direct object NP marked with the suffix
"-i"? This phenomenon is supposed to occur in
sentences with past tense and definite direct object.

Peter Henkelmann
University of Mainz
Germany