LINGUIST List 4.98

Sat 13 Feb 1993

Qs: French universities, flaps, prosody, gay speech

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1. , Re: FRENCH UNIVERSITIES
2. Mike Maxwell 6369, Creating a flap (words wanted)
3. Randall Gess, prosody discussion list
4. , Gay Men's Speech.

I AM seeking information on good linguistic departments and
libraries in south / eastern France . I am going to spend three
months near Aubenas in the Ardeche writing up my doctorate - and I would
feel more secure if I thought I had access to a decent library for
spoken discourse analysis / genre analysis / functional and systemic
linguistics.

If anyone knows of such a place and my chance of getting access as
a researching staff member of a British university - then I would like
to hear from you.

Yours
John Wheatley

I am trying to find out how many words of the type

 [V +stress]{t,d}[V]

there are in English. (I believe this is the environment in which
some dialects of English flap the /t/ and /d/.) Some examples are
"rider", "writer", "lady". I don't have access to a computer word
list of English, but I am not aware of any that would mark stressed
syllables anyway.

I doubt whether this is of general interest, so I probably won't post
the responses unless I hear otherwise.

Mike Maxwell maxwella1.jaars.sil.org

I've heard about a prosody discussion list. Could someone tell me how I
can subscribe to it?

A friend of mine is doing a project on the phonetics of the conversational
speech of gay men. He is, however, having problems finding any previous
published work on the subject. If anyone knows any references (however
obscure, however short) could they please E-Mail me the details.

 Many thanks,

 Stu.

SCW1UK.AC.YORK