LINGUIST List 5.1423

Sat 10 Dec 1994

Qs: Versification, Algerian Arabic, Spanish: Speakers, Corpora

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1. , Versification and Deep/Abstract Phonology
2. F Aiti-Si-Selmi, Emphatic Vowels in Algerian Arabic
3. Eric Bakovic, Native Spanish speakers needed
4. "David Gohre", Computerized Spanish Corpora

I recently posted a query asking for any literature on
(supposed) systems of versification that refer to deep/abstract
representations in phonology (defined as deeper than classical
phonemic). I have received no references beyond the ones I
originally posted, hence no summary is required. I would still
appreciate any additional literature that anybody would care
to send me in the future.

I am working on the influence of emphatic consonants(velarized,pharyngealized)
 on Arabic vowels especially Algerian Arabic.I am more particularly
interested in the role of alveolar trill "r" which seems to operate like an
emphatic consonant in many instances.I would like to know whether it does
the same thing in other Arabic "dialects"?I would appreciate examples .I
would also welcomeany references on the subject.
I would of course post a summary if there is enough interest
Gratefully
Farid Aitsiselmi
University of York
England, U.K.
fas1unix.york.ac.uk

 I am conducting a Spanish dialect survey and I need help from
native Spanish speakers in the form of judgments on word order. The
purpose of the survey is two-fold: I would like to characterize dia-
lects on the basis of word order and I would also like to investigate
the full range of ordering possibilities among the major sentential
constituents (subjects, verbs, objects, wh-phrases, auxiliaries, neg-
ation, etc.). Therefore, I will need as large a number of volunteers
as possible for this project to succeed.

 The format of the survey is simple: to those who respond
positively to this initial posting, I will send occasional messages
asking for judgments on sentences that will start out very easy to
judge and will slowly increase in difficulty from message to message.
All you have to do is read the sentences, judge them as "OK", "?",
or "*" on a piece of paper, and reply with a message of the following
form:

 1. OK
 2. ?
 3. *
 etc.

(For more discerning speakers, the scale "OK", "?", "?*", "*?", "*"
 may be used, but for the most part this will not be necessary.)

 *Please* respond with a message giving me the following in-
formation about your Spanish-speaking background: how old you are,
where your dialect is from (be as socially and geographically expli-
cit as you can), how you learned it (family, childhood friends, etc.),
and roughly how often you speak Spanish today.

 If you know of any people not on the LINGUIST list (but still
on the net) who may be interested in volunteering, please forward this
message on to them. Thank you very much.

Eric J. Bakovic
bakovicgandalf.rutgers.edu
Dept. of Linguistics
Rutgers University

I'd like to make a summary of text, available in Spanish, that can be
analyzed by computer. I'd prefer conversation, but to make the list
complete, I'll take ANYTHING that can be FTPed, or whatever. A
summary will be posted to the list.

 -David Gohre
 -dgohreindiana.edu