LINGUIST List 7.487

Sat Mar 30 1996

Qs: Akan, The symbol [D], French-American cross-talk, German

Editor for this issue: Ljuba Veselinova <lveselinemunix.emich.edu>

Directory

1. sanjo, Akan Language
2. MARC PICARD, The symbol [D]
3. Travis Bradley, Query: French-American cross-talk and jokes
4. Richard Hudson, German

I am interested in learning the Akan language. Could you please
provide me with texts and dictionaries that would help me study on my
own?

	I'm trying to find the originator of [D] as the symbol for the
English alveolar tap or flap in words like LATTER and LADDER. So far,
I've traced it back to Chomsky's (1964) "Current issues in linguistic
theory". Would anybody happen to know of an earlier source?

Marc Picard

Dear Linguist subscribers,

I am doing a paper on the application of H.P. Grice's theory of
conversation to both convserations and joke-telling in American
English and European French.

Would anyone happen to know of any previous work that compares French and
American conversational styles or conceptions of humor/joke-telling?

Thank you,
Travis Bradley

I should be very grateful for native-speaker judgements on the
following German sentences.

(1) Wirkliche Fehler waren ihm in seinen Vortraegen nie unterlaufen.

(2) In seinen Vortraegen waren ihm wirkliche Fehler nie unterlaufen.

(3) Unterlaufen waren ihm wirkliche Fehler in seinen Vortraegen nie.

(4) Wirkliche Fehler unterlaufen waren ihm in seinen Vortraegen nie.

(5) In seinen Vortraegen unterlaufen waren ihm wirkliche Fehler nie.

(6) In seinen Vortraegen wirkliche Fehler unterlaufen waren ihm nie.


Many thanks! I'll acknowledge your help if/when I publish the results.
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