LINGUIST List 5.1441

Tue 13 Dec 1994

Qs: Pre-school age genre, Spanish, German, Syllable appendices

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1. , register in the pre-school age
2. Pablo Accuosto, Q: Frecuency of words in spanish
3. Gwyn Williams, German (r): stylistic/other variation
4. , Syllable appendectomies?

I'm looking for references on the topic: register and/or genre in the
pre-school age. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Please reply
directly to me at:
caroline.libergling.uu.se

If anyone is interested, I will post a list of the references I find.

Thanks in advance,

Caroline Liberg


Caroline Liberg
Dept of Linguistics, Uppsala university
Box 513, S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

fax: +46 18 181416
tel: +46 18 181344
e-mail: caroline.libergling.uu.se

Hello,

I need a word frecuency list in spanish, and I would like to know where can
I get it.
Mostly I am interested in words related to the cientific field.
If you know where can I get it, please let me know.

Pablo Accuosto
Facultad de Ingenieria
Universidad de la Republica
Montevideo - Uruguay

e-mail: accuostofing.edu.uy

 A student is examining the variation in pronunciation of /r/ of Thai
students of German, in different speech styles (conversation, reading,
minimal pairs). We would appreciate any information or references
relating to variation of /r/ of German native speakers, allophonic,
dialectal, or stylistic.

 Mr. Gwyn Williams \_ *
 Department of Linguistics (/ * *
 Thammasat University /)
 Bangkok 10200, Thailand (/ *
 (gwynipied.tu.ac.th) '

 In reading a recent book on English phonology, I discovered that I had
 misunderstood (or overlooked) some recent proposals in syllable
 theory. The author of this book defines a syllabification algorithm
 that breaks syllables at troughs of sonority, the peaks of course
 being parsed as the syllable nuclei. In case of ambiguity, the onset
 wins (intervocalic consonants get parsed as the onset of the following
 syllable, not the coda of the preceding syllable; except that under
 certain circumstances such a C can be ambisyllabic).

 The problem arises with a sequence like sCV or sCCV, where the first C
 is a stop. The 's' is presumably of higher sonority than the stop.
 The author says that the 's' is parsed into an appendix of the
 syllable, preceding the onset. (The idea of syllable appendicies is
 attributed to an article by Fujimura in 1979. Hooper, in her Natural
 Generative Phonology, said that such /s/s in English were syllabic, a
 claim which I haven't seen anyone else buy into.)

 At first glance, syllable appendices seems to be a name for a problem,
 rather than a solution. On the other hand, I have read elsewhere
 about word-level appendices, and there seems to be some independent
 evidence for them (particularly in languages like Bella Coola, where
 the appendices are truly gigantic, but are evidently ignored by
 morphology that makes reference to the first syllable of the stem).
 Is there independent evidence for appendices to syllables?

 The same author also takes post-coda sequences of "coronal obstruents"
 to be appendices at the syllable level. I would have thought these,
 at least, were candidates for word-level appendices, as I can't think
 of word-internal examples (apart from compound nouns, which might be
 different); I'm assuming in a word like "constraint", the
 syllabification is "con.straint" (evidently syllable-initial
 appendices win over syllable-final appendices, too). Is there
 evidence one way or the other?