LINGUIST List 5.1306

Wed 16 Nov 1994

Qs: Spanish acquisition; Aspirates; Derby dialect; Voice

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1. Javier Galvan, Spanish as a second language
2. MARC PICARD, Loss of aspirates
3. "Paul Foulkes", Derby dialect/accent
4. radwm, Voice Onset Time

I am beginning to work on a dissertation on the acquisition of Spanish as a
Second Language at the University of Southern California. I would like to
know if anyone out there knows it there exists a "data bank" or "corpus" of
material from Spanish second Language learners. I could use a data bank that
is either written or in electronic form.

If anybody has information on thif request, plase answer directly to me at my
e-mail address provided below. I will post a summary if there are enough
responses. Thank oyu.

JAVIER GALVAN
UNiversity of Southern California

jgalvanaludra.usc.edu

 I'm looking for clearcut, uncontroversial, no-other-possible-
hypothesis cases in non-IE languages of /Th/ > /T/, i.e. cases where a
whole voiceless series of aspirated stops has changed to (or merged with)
plain voiceless stops. References to any such change going on as we speak
would be particularly welcome.

Marc Picard
picardvax2.concordia.ca

I am researching into the accent/dialect of Derby and Derbyshire,
England, and was wondering if anyone has any material or references on
the subject (apart from the obvious e.g. Wells, Accents of English etc.)
many thanks
Paul Foulkes
paul.foulkesnewcastle.ac.uk

 Dear Members:
I have been subscribed recently to this list. Could anybody
please send me up-to-date references (if any) on Voice Onset Time
in English and Arabic as part of a cross-language study.
 I would be grateful if you could help me in this regard
 Thanks in advance

 Marwan Radwan